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 J.M. Nouwen
Perfection for Green day AND Camera Critter. I enjoyed the commentary also.
ReplyDeleteKerri, beautiful shot of the caterpillar!
ReplyDeletesuch a cutie. i've always found caterpillars to be so fascinating since i was a young child. i was the kid to pick up creepy crawly things i bring them to my mom who would totally freak out. "eeeekkk, put that down, she would say" ... ha. ha!! ( :
ReplyDeleteVery beautiful caterpillar! And true words about compassion.
ReplyDeleteWow! This is beautiful... a stripped one!
ReplyDeleteLove the quote and the picture!
ReplyDeleteEven your littliest critters are beautifully captured!
ReplyDeleteLovely quote!
Nice shot of the little caterpillar!
ReplyDeleteThis is beautiful, Kerri.
ReplyDeleteGreat shot!!!
ReplyDeleteOh, what a beautiful quote and a beautiful image.
ReplyDeleteTerrific shot of the caterpillar - green on green.
ReplyDeleteLove your quote and love that little caterpillar....so oblivious to his danger of a human nearby.
ReplyDeleteSo cute that greeny caterpillar,
ReplyDeleteyou've shoted perfectly great.
have a nice weekend and green day
I totally love this!
ReplyDeleteVery appropriate quote. I've been reading an Advent study by Nouwen, so that made the quote even more interesting to me.
ReplyDeleteLove this although I was only able to raise 4 monarchs this summer...bad dry and hot year...
ReplyDeleteWow that caterpillar is so sharp it's scary, feels like I can reach in and touch him.
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