“Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into the places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion, and anguish. Compassion challenges us to cry out with those in misery, to mourn with those who are lonely, to weep with those in tears. Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless with the powerless. Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human.”
REFLECTION:
- Having compassion can be a very challenging exercise.
- Is there a person that may be weak, vulnerable, powerless or perhaps armored up, defensive or scared that you need to see through the eyes of compassion?
- How can you find more compassion (for someone dead or alive)?
- Would you consider a different perspective on this person… understanding that everyone is a “work in progress… that we all are/were doing the best we could”