God is Compassion

It’s a broken world where we desperately need hope, but God is compassion, and so we get to live again.

 

The other day I found some mouse droppings in my kitchen.

Concerned about the hygiene of the kitchen, I set a trap. Peanut butter would be the temptation that little mouse could not refuse.

Off to bed I went and in the middle of the night I heard the mouse trap go off. Snap!

Good, I thought, when I wake up in the morning, I will dispose of the little rodent.

I went back to sleep only to be woken a few hours later with a banging and clattering sound going on under my bed. Annoyed, I got up and looked under my bed and here was the trap and the little mouse with its foot caught in it.

Dilemna! 

What do I do? Do I kill the mouse and if so, how? Do I let it go it and let it live another day? Will it come back?

Then I realised it had actually dragged itself and the trap 12 metres from the kitchen to my bedroom. Amazing, and that it came to the only one that could help it. Another mammal like itself.

It needed help from someone bigger and chose me.

Compassion and pity prodded my heart.

 

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