What Does Kindness Say?
My sacrifice, O God, is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart you, God, will not despise.
-Psalm 51:17, NIV
Priest and writer Henri Nouwen says that in order for compassion to grow in an individual, he or she must dive into the discipline of solitude. “Compassion is the fruit of solitude and the fruit of all ministry,” he say…