Compassion …
“An abstract term”, you say …
Is it all that abstract, though?
Absent, … yes!
That’s what it is: driven away
By the very ones it united once ago!
Abstract … and yet, so active in each life
God touches in love.
Yes, active in Christ’s walk here on earth,
As well as in His courts above.
What is it worth?
How can we live so smug, content
To pass by on the other side;
While, all around us, lives are spent in
Great suffering and need?
But then, without compassion ,
And filled with pride,
Why would we ever heed
The cry of others?…
God’s compassion made us His very own;
That same compassion makes all brothers!
Show some compassion to a neighbour who’s down?
Compassion …
Abstract, you say?
Make it tangible!
Today!!!
Penned: January 1, 1986
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