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Compassion
Be happy with those who are happy,
and weep with those who weep.
ROMANS 12:15 (NLT)
The ministry of Endurance was birthed out of our compassion for those who hurt because we know the need for compassion when one is going through the valleys along life’s journey. And we know where the source of all comfort comes from: “God is our merciful Father and source of all comfort. He comforts us in all our troubles so that we can comfort others.” (2 Corinthians 1:3-4) We love how Henri Nouwen shares what true compassion really looks like:
“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.”
BY HENRI NOUWEN
Finally, all of you,
be like minded, be sympathetic, love one another,
be compassionate and humble.
1 PETER 3:8 (NIV)
Excerpted from “You are the Beloved” by Henri J.M. Nouwen
To receive Henri Nouwen’s Daily Meditations go to henrinouwen.org
On the journey with you,
Jan & Dave Dravecky
