The Condition.

I've heard the phrase "human condition" so many times in the past. But it is really only in these past few days of physical/psychological stress that I've truly begun to get a grasp on the meaning. It is amazing the amount of pain we can feel as humans. Pain can be physical but often it seems as if the worst kind is psychological/spiritual/mental...

Millions of people are suffering all over the world. Many are within mere miles of me. Yet I am only consumed with emotions of sympathy and empathy and grief when suffering directly touches my own existence.

To be a Christian must mean more than that. It must mean that I should seek to empathize with those who are suffering all over, whether that is a newly made widow in Iraq or some random person down the street. We strive for happiness in this great land. Happiness is for sale all around us. But Life is not happiness--at least not always, and for many it is rarely.

Happiness is too shallow. Joy is what has roots. The understanding that despite the sorrow that I may feel from time to time, that Joy comes in the Morning. That Truth gives strength to not only bear my own burdens, but to bear the burdens of all others. All others!

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