Empathy

Isaiah 35:3 – Strengthen the feeble hands, steady the knees that give way.

Empathy. Empathy, according to Wikipedia, is the capacity to understand or feel what another person is experiencing from within their frame of reference, that is, the capacity to place oneself in another’s position.
 

• Unless you’ve broken a bone, you don’t know what it feels like to experience pain while the bone heals.

 

• Unless you’ve lost someone you love, you don’t know what it feels like to cope with a death in your family or a friend.

 

• Unless you’ve moved around a lot, you don’t know what it feels like to not have a place to call home.

 

• Unless you’ve felt anxiety and depression, you don’t know what it feels like to battle a mental illness.

 
Unless.
 
Because you haven’t been there.
 
Unless you have struggled with what someone else has gone through, you can’t know how it feels.
 
But regardless of whether or not you’ve walked in another person’s shoes, you can perhaps relate it to something that you struggle with.
 
Verywellmind.com in their article, “Importance and Benefits of Empathy,” discusses types of empathy, explanation of how empathy works, emotional explanations, the benefits of empathy, how you can influence people, and why people lack empathy.
 
Empathy means reaching out to someone who has experienced a trial in their life, and even if you haven’t experienced it, you can still water their hearts with your compassion showering a sweet balm upon them.
 
Lastly, take a look at the Bible verse above, it calls for all of us to strengthen and steady those who are in a situation that you might not have been in but you can still stand by their side and help them through the trial.

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