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Do you want your shoes back now?
The age old saying goes: “You can’t understand someone until you have walked a mile in their shoes” (or variations on that theme). I get what it’s saying, but I don’t think it’s right. It’s not enough. Walking a mile in someone’s shoes is about us experiencing life as they do, but only to do…
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feelings…
On Sunday evening at our church we will be having another of our Film Nights. They are relaxed occasions when we gather together and watch a film, with an invitation to reflect on some of the deeper meaning of the film and what it means for our lives. This Sunday we will be watching The Bucket…
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empathalogical ministry
Okay, tonight it’s an early evening bloggage due to a busy day. Sorry to anyone who starts their day with my blog – today will be rather short for you! Today has been filled with Baptist Ministers. You could call it a deluge of Baptist Ministers. I had a great lunch meeting with two fellow…
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he who laughs last… didn’t get the joke
Is it wrong to feel happy when someone struggles to pronounce ‘Schadenfreude’*? I have recently been the cause of a lot of joy for other people. Rotten rail journeys that went wrong have caused a certain amount of glee for people who have experienced them vicariously through my Facebook statuses. I think that counts as…
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I don’t believe it
Sometimes you have to stop and throw your hands up. In a moment I want to make some comments about the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, but first I want to scream at the screen “WHY?” Not “WHY?” about the earthquake, tsunami, suffering and death but about this news story: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12756366 British bureaucracy has prevented…
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I know how you feel
Empathy is a very powerful thing. It is more than sympathy (where we express how we feel about something that has happened) although that is powerful itself. Empathy is where we are able to feel how someone else feels. We can’t know exactly how anyone feels, but when we are able to be empathic we…
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guilty pleasures
I was waiting under my umbrella in the pouring rain a little earlier and had a crisis of conscience. Across the road from me I noticed a lady crouched on the ground. She had an umbrella but it was lying upside down on the pavement. She was getting drenched and rummaging in a bag. I…
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