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Once when I was going through a difficult time, my husband touched his finger to the tears winding down my face, then touched his wet finger to his own cheek. His gesture spoke volumes to me. It said: "Your tears run down my face, too. Your suffering aches inside my heart as well. I share your wounded…

FATHER’S DAY In his song, “Grown Men Don’t Cry,” Tim McGraw writes about the parent-child relationship and the strong bonds it creates for a lifetime. He describes seeing a homeless woman with her child clinging to her. He didn’t just immediately dismiss the scene as commonplace, but was able to get…

My son once hurt himself while playing his favorite toy -- a Star Wars light sabre. He had taken the plastic blade and shoved it back in the handle, and when he did that, his hand got caught in the moving plastic. He cried so loudly that it could be heard throughout the entire house. But when his mother…

Compassion is about the moment! It is about using what I have at hand—money, talent, encouragement, or a shoulder to cry on—to meet another person’s need. Compassion is about tears from heaven Science tells us there are three kinds of tears. (1) Basal tears flow continually into our eyes to lubricate…

It Is Christ We Serve It is Christ we serve, not each other. The suffering we see and hear, In the world of others and our own, Is the pain of Christ Himself. It is Christ we hurt, not each other. The suffering that we inflict, With our thoughts, our words, and our actions, Is the hurt of Christ Himself.…