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A Mile in Their Shoes

You must live with people to know their problems, and live with God in order to solve them.


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Already Half-Dead?

If we refuse to take the risk of being vulnerable, we are already half-dead. If you are half-dead, you don't have to starve with the people of Ethiopia. ...


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What You Know About Everyone You Meet

Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something, and has lost something.


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Burying Loved Ones

It's getting harder and harder to bury people now--they're my brothers, my sisters.


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Pay Attention to the Pain

When the Spirit, revealing the will of God for the world, creates in the heart a great pain and a great discontent, do not check it. That is what Christian ...


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Let Me Tell You Something ...

If you're in a social situation, and women are talking to each other, and one woman says, "I was hit by a car today," all the other women ...


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Emotional Distance

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.


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Prayer for Understanding

Grant me, O Lord, an understanding heart, that I may see into the hearts of thy people, and know their strengths and weaknesses, their hopes and their ...


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Forgetting the Emotions of Others

I'm not as prone to manipulate people's emotions as I am to forget them.


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Bearing Each Other's Burdens

Last spring, Mr. Alter's fifth-grade class at Lake Elementary School in Oceanside, California, included fourteen boys who had no hair. Only one, however, ...


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