Day Nineteen // March 10 // Compassion “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.” – Plato –
In his classic hymn “Love Divine All Love’s Excelling,” Charles Wesley captured the essence of Jesus’ ministry: “Jesus, Thou art all compassion, Pure unbounded love Thou art; Visit us with Thy salvation; Enter every trembling heart.” Isn’t it amazing that the way Jesus shares that pure, unbounded love with the world is through the compassion of His followers? The term compassion has its linguistic roots in the Latin terms com (with) and pati (suffering). We have compassion when we