The beatitudes say, "Blessed are the poor". They don't say, "Blessed are those who care for the poor."

Let's dare to enter into an intimate relationship with God without fear, trusting that we will receive love and always more love.

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

The Church will always be renewed when our attention shifts from ourselves to those who need our care. The blessing of Jesus always comes to us through the poor. The most remarkable experience of those who work with the poor is that, in the end, the poor give more than they receive. They give food to us.

Emit gratitude as though it was done

Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into the places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion, and anguish. Compassion challenges us to cry out with those in misery, to mourn with those who are lonely, to weep with those in tears. Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless with the powerless. Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human.

Pay attention to the people God puts in your path if you want to discern what God is up to in your life.