Do you ever have words that just ring in your mind, coming up over and over again? I've been noticing that I do. Last year a word that filtered through my head consistently was 'integrity'. Already for 2012 I have a new word, however. It's 'compassion'. I've been thinking a lot about compassion. Compassion for the poor, the broken, the "other", yes of course. We desperately need more compassion in our world, and I believe we need it in our government too. But that's not the only 'compassion' I've been thinking about. I've been feeling a great deal of compassion for my husband lately. And my daughter and son, too, truth be told. The kids are teen-agers (or about to be, in Rose's case) and are wading through all that adolescence brings them from heavy school work loads to dealing with mean kids to learning to navigate the world and figure out their place in it. Compassion for my husband I feel because I love hi...
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