“Welcome, you who come in need of healing, you who are confused, or have been betrayed. Welcome, with your problems and your pain.” -Maureen Killoran
How have you shown compassion to someone experiencing problems and pain?
Mighty Oaks
If we seek to grow deep roots and flourish like mighty oaks, we cannot poison the ground that our fellow human beings—our siblings—are growing in.
How have you experienced the poisons that compassion is the antidote to?
Lifting All
“I’m gonna lift my people up, they are not heavy. If I can’t lift them up—if I can’t lift them up—I will fall down.” -Faya Ora Rose Toure
How can you participate in lifting someone else up today?
Centering Others
“The principle of compassion lies at the heart of all religious, ethical and spiritual traditions, calling us always to treat all others as we wish to be treated ourselves. Compassion impels us to work tirelessly to alleviate the suffering of our fellow creatures, to dethrone ourselves from the centre of our world and put another there, and to honour the inviolable sanctity of every single human being, treating everybody, without exception, with absolute justice, equity and respect.” -The Charter for Compassion
How have you practiced centering others?
Justice, Equity, and Compassion
“We, the member congregations of the Unitarian Universalist Association covenant to affirm and promote…justice, equity, and compassion in human relationships.”
What does it mean to promote compassion in human relationships? How have you witnessed this happening?