The Burden of Empathy -- I've Shared it Here Before

Sometimes it's hard taking on the burdens, the pain, of others.

It can be a holy thing.  It's a very Christ-like thing.  A cross-thing.

But it can be hard.  I think I've felt this more over the past year than I have at any other time in ministry.

I wouldn't give it up for the world....but there are days I just might "give it up" for the world or a whole lot less.

Today's not one of those days.  Today's a good day.  But I'm more aware now than I ever have been that empathy comes with a burden...which is why so many people fail to enter into it at all.

The cartoon is from ASBOJESUS.