Moved with Compassion

It was just a Scripture verse on our church board — a familiar one, perhaps even overlooked at times. But this time, it stirred something raw, something holy. It pressed on emotions I couldn’t name, as if the Spirit were groaning with me, reminding me that this ache is sacred (Romans 8:26).
The world right now is loud with empathy. We see it in campaigns, in shared stories, in leadership  training, in visible tears. Empathy acknowledges pain. It listens. It validates. But it often stops just short of the threshold where transformation begins.