Where does compassion come from?

"I cannot worry much about your sins and miseries when I have so many of my own. I can only love you all, poor fellow travelers, fellow sufferers. . . . My prayer from day to day is that God will so enlarge my heart that I will see you all, and live with you all, in His love."

                                                                                      Day, Dorothy Day, Selected Writings, 88.

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where does compassion come from?

where does compassion live?

compassion and kindness

can only emerge

when I have wrestled in my our soul

in the depths of who I am

with my own miseries

and found there

in the context of Sacred Presence

my own comfort

and acceptance

then with heart full

“I will see you all, and live with you all,

in His love."