Empathy & Compassion...
EMPATHY & COMPASSION
He who knows himself, knows others. ---- Charles C. Colton
There are many gifts that can come from our own personal disappointments if we are open to them.
One such gift is the ability to help others. Having felt anger, guilt, and sorrow, we are better able to identify with the same feelings in others. We can be more tolerant of others, having empathy & compassion for those with similar hurts. And, if we overcome the pain of our own disappointments, we can share the attitudes and actions that allowed us grow from those hurtful experiences.
Another gift is forgiveness. When we do not deny our pain - and make a concerted effort to work through our feelings of anger, rejection, and guilt - we gain a better perspective of ourselves and a better understanding of others. We become aware of our deepest desires and needs, our deepest insecurities and fears, our weaknesses and our strengths. When we can accept and understand our imperfect natures, we can accept the imperfections and growing pains of others much better.
Today I will use my past disappointments as gifts to better understand myself as well as others. I will attempt to help others overcome their hurts by sharing my own struggles and victories with them.
Don G. Dinsdale wrote:
EMPATHY & COMPASSION
He who knows himself, knows others. ---- Charles C. Colton
There are many gifts that can come from our own personal disappointments if we are open to them.
One such gift is the ability to help others. Having felt anger, guilt, and sorrow, we are better able to identify with the same feelings in others. We can be more tolerant of others, having empathy & compassion for those with similar hurts. And, if we overcome the pain of our own disappointments, we can share the attitudes and actions that allowed us grow from those hurtful experiences.
Another gift is forgiveness. When we do not deny our pain - and make a concerted effort to work through our feelings of anger, rejection, and guilt - we gain a better perspective of ourselves and a better understanding of others. We become aware of our deepest desires and needs, our deepest insecurities and fears, our weaknesses and our strengths. When we can accept and understand our imperfect natures, we can accept the imperfections and growing pains of others much better.
Today I will use my past disappointments as gifts to better understand myself as well as others. I will attempt to help others overcome their hurts by sharing my own struggles and victories with them.
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I look forward to your posts everyday! I'm working on the 'forgiveness' one. I haven't quite got it accomplished yet. I'm glad the Lord has patience with his children!
We are only required to forgive somebody who truly repents. That is a four step process. Remorse, confession, restitution, and change. We are not to avenge, vengeance belongs to God. If someone repents, they are forgiven in the eyes of God and it is a sin to hold a grudge against them. Leviticus 19:18. If we do not forgive God, (for bad behaviors and things said) then God cannot forgive us.
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