Jesus provides for us the clearest picture of the nature of God. We see in Jesus the compassion of God, the tenderness of God, and the desire of God to care for us. ~James Bryan Smith
Do We Care?
Can I see another’s woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another’s grief, and not seek for kind relief?
Can I see a falling tear, and not feel my sorrow’s share? Can a father see his child weep, not be with sorrow filled?
Can a mother sit and hear an infant groan, an infant fear? No, no! never can it be! Never, never can it be!
Does God Care?
And can he who smiles on all, hear the wren with sorrows small, hear the small bird’s grief and care, hear the woes that infants bear,
And not sit beside the nest, pouring pity in their breast; and not sit the cradle near, weeping tear on infants’ tear; wiping all our tears away?
And not sit both night and day, O! no, never can it be! Never, never can it be!
He doth give his joy to all; he becomes an infant small; He becomes a man of woe; he doth feel the sorrow too.
Think not thou canst sigh a sigh, and thy maker is not by; think not thou canst weep a tear, and thy maker is not near.
O! he gives to us his joy that our grief he may destroy; till our grief is fled and gone he doth sit by us and moan.
William Blake (1757-1827), English poet and artist titled this children poem, “On Another’s Sorrow,” from Songs of Innocence and Experience
