Good Morning,
“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 J.M. Nouwen
The above quote from Henri Nouwen is so very good! It gets at the heart of the Beatitudes for me and how God uses us to bless the poor in spirit and comfort those who mourn.
Compassion is another name for Jesus. Read the quote again and replace the word compassion with Jesus.
The message this Sunday is “Blessed are the Meek" from Matthew 5:5.
See you Sunday,
David
P.S.-You can hear the first two messages on the beatitudes below:
