I just read one of the best conceptualizations of compassion that I’ve ever read outside of the Holy Scripture: Hebrew [chesed]: To love tenderly, to have mercy, compassion upon anyone “Compassion is derived from the Latin words ‘pati’ and ‘cum’ which together mean “to suffer with.” Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion and anguish. Compassion challenges us to cry out with those in misery, to mourn... Read more