Inspiration

Do you remember back in the day, when you'd go to a store and try to explain to a sales clerk which movie you were looking for?

A sign behind the counter at a video rental store:

"We are sorry to report that we are all out of 'That Movie with That Guy Who Was in That Other Movie.'

There was some confusion when ordering from our distributor. - Thank You"

- Joni Earikson Tada

"Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into the places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion and anguish. Compassion challenges us to cry out with those in misery, to mourn with those who are lonely, to weep with those in tears. Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless with the powerless. Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human."

- Henri Nouwen

The Amish people lead a simple life. That means no electricity. An Amish man answered a knock on his door one morning.

An electric company worker handed him a piece of paper stating that the electric company would like to run a power line through his cow pasture. The Amish man said, "No, no thou cannot."

"Legally, that paper says we can," replied the gruff worker.

As he turned and left returning to his co-workers in the field, the Amish man went to his barn and turned his bull into the pasture. As the bull rumbled toward the workers in the field, the Amish farmer hollered,

"Show HIM thy paper!"