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Sir Froggie??™s Pondering
COMPLY
WITH COMPASSION
Have
you ever felt an urge or prompting to do something that
would help someone out? Or experienced a longing in your
soul to take action on behalf of another living being?
Comply
with compassion.
What
exactly is compassion? It can be many things??¦ sympathy,
empathy, concern, kindness, consideration or caring. At its
root is love. Love for another living being. Love for one
of God??™s many creations. Love for humankind or even animal
kind. And love is a powerful thing. It can move mountains??¦
Or at least human beings. And
those human beings can get the equipment, intelligence and
motivation to move that mountain piece by piece.
That??™s
how we improve our world??”piece by piece.
And prompting by prompting.
God
works miracles in and through each of us. When
you feel something gnawing at your gut prompting you to take
some sort of helpful action, that??™s God trying to work
through you. If you listen and hear the voice of
truth telling you to do something it will resonate within
you and it won??™t leave you alone until you either listen and
comply or simply turn away and say ???NO, I??™m NOT going to!???
And if you choose the latter, don??™t be surprised if you get
another opportunity to do what you were prompted to.
Each
of us makes a difference. That difference may be bigger
than we ever realized or imagined possible. Every day
offers us the opportunity to have a positive effect if we??™ll
just take it.
Tune
in to what your heart tells you. Listen to your
compassion. Is it telling you to send money to a charity or
give your spare change to the homeless person on the
street? Is it urging you to donate your old clothes to a
battered women??™s shelter? Is it suggesting putting an extra
dollar in the tip jar or volunteering your time to a good
cause? Does compassion tell you to go easy on the child who
messes up or to forgive the spouse who lost track of time at
work and forgot to call as promised? Does it lead you to
invite a senior neighbor in for dinner or to hold the door
open for the person behind you? Do you listen when
compassion tells you to assist someone whose arms are full
and needs help carrying a package? Will you enact patience
and kindness on the store clerk who seems to be bumbling
badly or on the waitress whose had an off day and can??™t
focus on your order because her boss just chewed her out?
Do you obey the prompting to call a friend or coworker out
of the blue? Can you let that person stuck trying to turn
into traffic get in front of you? Or take the time to tell
those you care about that you love them?
Compassion speaks to us in many different ways. It prompts
us to act in a divine and loving manner, often in the most
basic and simplistic of details. The things we do out of
compassion may seem small to us, but to the recipient they
can make a big difference. And when we act in large ways
out of compassion miracles often ensue.
Comply
with compassion.
??” ?© December 12th, 2004,
Sir Froggie, JMP
Sir Froggie is
the oldest living amphibian known to man. He is also a
retired Knight who has fought off evil mosquitoes to save a
friendly dragon from their vicious attack.
Sir Froggie has spent several hundred years on the planet
observing human beings. He has extensive wisdom and
knowledge which he shares to enlighten our spirits and
encourage us to be the best possible people we can be.
In the 1980's, Sir Froggie met a
young maiden who agreed to take on the task of ghost writing
for him. (After several hundred years, his limbs were
getting a little tired.) To keep Sir Froggie's thoughts and
ponderings authentic, his ghost writer simply uses the
initials
JMP,
as the
gender of the writer did not seem as important as the
messages Sir Froggie was trying to convey.
Visit Sir Froggie??™s homepage at:
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