Compassionate Love
It is compassion that fosters community
It is a loving, forgiving spirit
That encourages a kinship amongst fellow men;
Yet in the world, the emphasis is on self-interest
The hard-headed, cold-hearted determination
To gain individual satisfaction.
Compassion emphasises sameness
All share common strengths and weaknesses;
Then we can empathise with the sorrows
And share the joys of others;
We can enjoy a sense of kinship,
We become a community.
Yet, the world emphasises difference
Difference sets us apart emotionally;
We become the centre of our own world
An opaque screen comes between us and others
Things that touch our radar are seen
Through sensitive, distrustful, myopic eyes.
See the wisdom of ALMIGHTY GOD
In sending HIS BELOVED SON,JESUS CHRIST
As one of us, a human being but without sin,
To be the Good Shepherd,
Who loves and cares for HIS flock.
Christ is perfect self-giving LOVE, our guide to
The path of truth and light
The forgiving way to reconciliation and heaven.
Christ could have come as a conquering monarch
All creation, its power and wealth belong to Him
HE is omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent GOD;
Yet GOD chose to come humbly, He chose to be Immanuel GOD-with-us,
Someone who desires to share our human frailties
To understand, to empathise, to love us
And like a true friend, to lay down HIS life for us
To die for our sins, to enable reconciliation
Through HIS compassion, HE makes possible our salvation.
Christ’s way is the way of LOVE and forgiveness
The way of truth and light
His way is one of compassion;
HE will expect this compassion from HIS children,
HE will ask, not what good works have we done on earth but
How much have we loved and forgiven our fellow men;
For how can we expect the righteous God’s loving compassion
When we, ourselves, are biased, judgemental and uncompassionate.
Shirley Lau