{"id":926,"date":"2012-10-26T23:59:13","date_gmt":"2012-10-26T23:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/callandresponse\/?p=926"},"modified":"2012-10-26T23:59:13","modified_gmt":"2012-10-26T23:59:13","slug":"compassion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/callandresponse\/compassion\/","title":{"rendered":"Compassion"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Call: Words Have Meanings — Cheryl<\/h6>\n

As Christians, compassion should be a very important word in our lives. It is, in fact, a word that gets bandied about in secular society an awful lot, especially at election time. According to The Free Dictionary<\/a>, “compassion” is defined as “[d]eep awareness of the suffering of another coupled with the wish to relieve it.” It is noble and right to feel compassion for others. Unfortunately, though, compassion is one of those virtues that tends to inspire actions that often wind up being rather shortsighted. Today, I read a piece<\/a> on the shortsighted compassion of abortion, written by a man conceived in rape. He wrote, “There are real lives at stake, and abortion only allows us to pretend that those lives don\u2019t exist. … Our lives are reflective of how our humanity is extremely compassionate when we don\u2019t compound the horror of rape with the violence of abortion.”<\/p>\n\n

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The Response: Little Buddy — Jessica<\/h6>\n

Having many younger siblings can be a major annoyance. It can also teach you patience and compassion. At least I hope it can. Sometimes I wonder — but then I catch moments like this and I know that having to watch out for someone younger than them is teaching them to be more compassionate and understanding of the weaker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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