We all want someone who understands, don’t we? Not just someone who wants to help or someone who is willing to listen, but someone who can sympathize with us. Isn’t that what we’re all looking for?
Maybe we’re the answer to our own longings.
Each of us has a particular set of memories and experiences that make us peculiarly qualified to meet this need in someone else (both in joy and in sadness)… but it takes some soul searching.
What unique history do YOU have that could alter the course of someone else’s life? Who can YOU truly sympathize with?
Lord, grant me the wisdom to be someone who not only knows, but understands.
“My own experience and development deepen everyday my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.” – T.S. Eliot
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
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