Compassion

COMPASSION, as I see it, is generosity without publicity; it is the secret and spontaneous act of giving to save someone who's dying and not the alms given when one is already in the coffin; it is the setting aside of a longtime desire for personal luxury in paving way to a neighbor's necessity; it is not a mere showing of sympathy when one actually has the material means to help nor it is a priestly advice to a needy to pray but to make one's self available to be GOD's instrument in answering to a poor man's prayer. One must not be proud that he has advised a needy person to pray. Why? Can one not realize that when a man is in a real need he does a lot of thinking? For sure, praying is a needy's first option and that a comfortable way of approaching a neighbor is among the priority concerns of his prayer. If one claims that he/she has been blest then how can he/she be a testimony to prove GOD's blessing if he/she is only good at advising yet reluctant to actual giving?