"Jesus' whole life and mission involve accepting powerlessness and revealing in this powerlessness the limitlessness of God's love. Here we see what compassion means. It is not a bending toward the underprivileged from a privileged position; it is not a reaching out from on high to those who are less fortunate below; it is not a gesture of sympathy or pity for those who fail to make it in the upward pull. On the contrary, compassion means going directly to those people and places where suffering is most acute and building a home there."
- Henri Nouwen
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"compassion means going directly to those people and places where suffering is most acute and building a home there."
ReplyDeleteWe know it's a good road, a good role model for us. God went from devine to human; did it in the person of Jesus.... Jesus built a home among us 'where the suffering is most acute". Maybe our counter-cultural task as Christians is to begin our downwardly mobile journey towards our home among the poor. There with the poor, our blessings and power are multiplied by our God's love for His poor (Anavim).
Good Words Dee!
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