Today in staff devotions, we had a local pastor speak to us. He talked about a number of different things, one of them being compassion. He said, "Compassion means, 'Your pain is my pain.'" If we're not making the pain of those to whom we are ministering our pain, we're not truly ministering. If we're not taking on the pain of others, we'd better just leave and get out of the way so that someone with compassion can take our place.
That's real talk.
