{"id":3510,"date":"2022-05-20T06:57:39","date_gmt":"2022-05-20T10:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/?p=3510"},"modified":"2022-05-20T06:57:39","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T10:57:39","slug":"the-limits-of-empathy-and-sympathy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/?p=3510","title":{"rendered":"The Limits of Empathy and Sympathy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Solomon said, <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">&#8220;The heart knows its own bitterness, and no stranger shares its joy&#8221;<\/span> (Proverbs 14:10).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/sculpture-g527942647_1920.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3513\" src=\"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/sculpture-g527942647_1920-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"676\" height=\"451\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/sculpture-g527942647_1920-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/sculpture-g527942647_1920-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/sculpture-g527942647_1920-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/sculpture-g527942647_1920-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/sculpture-g527942647_1920-676x451.jpg 676w, https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/sculpture-g527942647_1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Longfellow observed, &#8220;<span class=\"ILfuVd\"><span class=\"hgKElc\">Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Pastor John Watson (pen name Ian Maclaren) counseled, &#8220;Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">&#8220;So, as those who have been chosen of God, holy and beloved, put on a heart of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience&#8221;<\/span> (Colossians 3:12, NASB).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Solomon said, &#8220;The heart knows its own bitterness, and no stranger shares its joy&#8221; (Proverbs 14:10). Longfellow observed, &#8220;Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.\u201d Pastor John Watson (pen name Ian Maclaren) counseled, &#8220;Be kind, for everyone you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,90,101,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-depression","category-humility","category-love","category-miscellaneous","post-preview"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgYGxX-UC","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3510"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3515,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3510\/revisions\/3515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}