Compassion seems to be a natural response, even though it so often feels unnatural. It is when we see the object of our compassion through the lens of what we, too, have experienced, that we can offer mercy.
This morning's mercy to me came in the form of this awareness, that where I might want to react in anger (ironically, often because of anger towards me), I more naturally want to respond with mercy...because of the mercy that has been shown towards me.
In other words, what someone else is going through...is something, if I'm honest, I also have gone through (or still go through).
