Good morning, everyone, and welcome back to another morning with the masters where we

devote ourselves to Lord daily with you. Good morning, you guys. Yes, good morning. We

are picking up with a three of our showing empathy devotional in the Bible app. There's

a link to that in the description of this podcast. If you guys want to follow along with

us, and as always, I'm going to read the scripture and then Tori is going to read the diva.

Let's do it. The scripture is Romans chapter 12 verse 15, and it says this,

be happy with those who are happy and weep with those who weep. The devotional is titled

empathy gets dirty, and it says, empathy is hard. It takes a planned effort for us to actually

become empathetic people. Sure, some of us are wired this way, but many of us aren't. We say

things like, I just don't have empathy for people, or I don't know what he's going through,

so I can't help. We think it's something we'll never grow in, but we can. Even if we don't understand

their exact situation, empathy seeks to get to their level in order to comprehend their viewpoint.

We can grow and become empathetic when we choose to. When we act and live empathetically,

we're basically taking on someone else's burden and making it particularly ours. That can cause

discomfort to us in just about every area, emotionally, physically, financially, to name a few.

And it's usually a reason people don't want to get into the weeds of someone else's life.

Like we stated in day one, feeling compassion and sympathy is great, but it's just how we feel.

When we act on those feelings, that's when empathy is displayed in our lives and helps others.

To help us fully understand the impact of empathy and how we can grow in this area,

here are some examples of the differences between feeling sympathy and acting empathetically.

Sympathy feels bad for the friend who lost their spouse.

Empathy goes to visit them and dives into the ugliness of grief.

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