Wounded Mercy
- nuscss
- Jun 5, 2020
- 1 min read
After listening to a sharing by Cardinal Tagle during the Social Mission Conference 2016, I felt inspired to condense and articulate what it meant to be compassionate and merciful. So, I wrote this poem titled "Wounded Mercy".
In The Wounded Healer, Henri Nouwen encourages us to “enter . . . into the centre of our existence and become familiar with the complexities of our inner lives” so that we can respond to others with compassion.
“Through compassion is it possible to recognise that the craving for love that men feel resides also in our own hearts, that the cruelty that the world knows all too well is also rooted in our own impulses. Through compassion we also sense our hope for forgiveness in our friends’ eyes and our hatred in their bitter mouths. When they kill, we know that we could have done it; when they give life, we know that we can do the same. For a compassionate man nothing human is alien: no joy and no sorrow, no way of loving and no way of dying” (Henri Nouwen)
I pray we continue to grow in compassion, especially when we journey with others!
- Ryan Ng
If you are interested in reading more about the keynote address by Cardinal Tagle during the Social Mission Conference 2016, do click on the link below:
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