Thursday, May 10, 2012

Further Compassion

I do love Henri Nouwen's writings.  This is a second piece on compassion; the first can be found here.

"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."

- Henri Nouwen

Can you see the tiny moon? It is there.
The moon is a compassionate planet.

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