Compassion Changes Lives Every Time

​I heard this quote at our conference today at literally the exact right time. It was divine timing. Some day I'll explain that deeper.

But for now I just want to soak in the truth of the statement and not the timing of it.

Whenever Jesus was moved with compassion, someone's life changed.

Not sometimes. Not many times. Every time.

I am a beneficiary of a life changed because of Jesus' compassion.
But when I hear that quote, I don't think of the power of Jesus. I think of the power of compassion.

The speaker defined compassion as "suffering together." Lives do change when we suffer together. When we enter into another's suffering with the intent of absorbing a piece of that suffering.

Remember me talking and writing about absorbing each other's pain the other day? Today I call that compassion.

Suffering together.

Because it's true, whenever WE are moved with compassion, someone's life will change. Whenever WE enter into someone's life with a desire to absorb the pain - to suffer with - someone's life will change.

Not sometimes. Not many times. Every time.