Learning to have a heart that is moved (Frederick Buechner / Pope Leo XIV)

The final secret, I think, is this:
that the words ‘You shall love the Lord your God’
become in the end less a command
than a promise.

--Frederick Buechner

    If Christ shows us the face of a compassionate God, then to believe in him and to be his disciples means allowing ourselves to be changed and to take on his same feelings. It means learning to have a heart that is moved, eyes that see and do not look away, hands that help others and soothe their wounds, shoulders that bear the burden of those in need. 

--Pope Leo XIV 

Image source: William-Adophe Bouguereau, Compassion! (1897), https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William-Adolphe_Bouguereau_(1825-1905)_-_Compassion_(1897).jpg
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