I want to error on the side of compassion (and a strong kind at that).
If we offer anything of God correctly to the world, it just might largely be compassion.
Can we understand and embrace compassion without having personally experienced our own need for it? Our own receipt of it? Anyone who has genuinely received compassion, knows what it means to offer it to someone else. Someone who lacks it for others, likely has never experienced it from someone else.
I can listen with compassion because I believe that the very hard thing the other is going through is deepening their own capacity for compassion...what others need from all of us.
