This painting was from a photo I took in India back (way back!!) when I was 19. I spent the summer living and working at a leper colony in a remote part of India. The elderly man had worked with Mother Teresa in Calcutta, and had seen there was a need for people in the Bihar region. He was a man of compassion. Compassion is different than sympathy. Compassion has hands and feet and involves action. Compassion moves beyond mere sympathy and acts to make a difference. It is something worth thinking about and challenging ourselves with. When we feel sympathy for someone's plight, however small, will we just stay in the realm of feeling sorry for them, or will we do something, and act, and experience the blessing it is to walk in compassion.
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