The Compassionate Heart

Today’s Reflection

The compassionate heart, we say, is soft not hard, warm not cold, open not closed. It is a heart that goes out to another, that breaks for another, that bleeds for another.

—Frank Rogers Jr., Compassion in Practice: The Way of Jesus, Revised Edition (Upper Room Books, 2026)

Today’s Question

Who is your heart soft for? Who has your heart been hardened toward?

Today’s Scripture

But while he was still far off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion; he ran and put his arms around him and kissed him.—Luke 15:20 (NRSVUE)

Prayer for the Week

O God of love, you have offered compassion to me in abundance. Bring me close to you, so I may offer compassion to those who are suffering. Amen.