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 to 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, Daily Meditation, August 10, 2019.
Image source: Carl Wilhelm Huebner, The Mourning Widow, https://the-end-time.org/2013/02/27/care-of-widows/
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