Our progress in understanding one another will only go so far as empathy takes us.
We can only have empathy if we walk in humility.
That can only happen through relationships. We can fuel our anger and sense of righteousness by e-mails. We often do. But we don’t build relationships that way.
Empathy requires presence, proximity, touch, sacrifice, “staying.”
To enter into the hurt and sorrow of another person guarantees that you’ll lose something, but you will come out more human on the other end.
I believe it all has to start by recognizing that we are all created in the image of God. Equal in dignity, value and worth. I believe it will be fueled by recognizing that we are all on the journey of life, of unknown but relatively short length, and if we are able to help one another along the way, that is a good thing. Empathy allows us do this.
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