Empty Compassion

We all have emotion

But can we say we have compassion?

When we see a girl without slippers

And feel sympathy towards her

Thats just emotion

Compassion exists when we start to take action

A profound statement from cell group last night

"Compassion starts from the heart

Then to the hands"

If we don't live it, no point feeling it

We see beggars, widows, orphans

Street kids, cripples and the blind

Yet sometimes we cast a blind eye

Thinking they should get a life

Well, God gave them a life

Not to be ridiculed and spat on

But to be loved and cared for

Precious souls not lower than you and me

Cant wait to help out with my cell members

As we do the little that we can

To touch their hearts and dirty little hands

We will mean the whole world to them

I admit I have been sucked up in sympathy for them

Thinking them in the lower class and I in the middle

But I've got the hierarchy all wrong

They are above me and I have to feel honored to be able to help them

Emotions plus Empathy

Equating to Emptiness

For what difference would it make

If I'll forever be self- centered

To the girl who has no electricity in her home

No place in the fridge for it serves more as a box

The delight when she says "This is my Deepavali meal!"

When you peek in the pot, its only 'maggi soup'

I wanna be the difference for people like her

I was told there are 2 kinds of people

Those who walk through life without making a difference in this world

And those who walks through life who dares and cares to make a difference for somebody

I choose to be the latter and I dare you to it

We can keep preaching and we can keep sharing

But would they even understand whatever we're blabbering?

People don't care how much you know

Until they know how much you care

We're the only Jesus they see right now

No point reasoning or contemplating

What. Will. Jesus. Do?

Let's make this statement real and more than just cool

I wanna make a change

To be the change

As a person we cannot change the world

But we can definitely change the world of a person

Here are my hands and feet

My time and effort

I lay them before You

Use me as Your servant

As I turn this emotion into true compassion

Help me love like You do

And see things the way You see

For I'm not gonna live this way no more

with just EMPTY COMPASSION...