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 ====== Compassionate Hearts ... ====== ====== Compassionate Hearts ... ======
  
-Thursday, Jan 10, 2019. Are you compassionate? Some people are more compassionate that+Thursday, Jan 10, 2019. Are you compassionate? Some people are more compassionate and  
 +passionate that
 others, just by their character. But even if your basic character is rather dry, you  others, just by their character. But even if your basic character is rather dry, you 
-can be compassionate about some things your way. What are those things you are compassionate+can be passionate about some things your way. What are those things you are passionate
 about? Is it things, goals, activities? Is it people, family, friends, some particular about? Is it things, goals, activities? Is it people, family, friends, some particular
 person? What is it that makes your heart be in flames? person? What is it that makes your heart be in flames?
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 also about worship, preaching, teaching, discipleship and the holy spirit.  also about worship, preaching, teaching, discipleship and the holy spirit. 
  
-In 1 Timothy, the apostle Paul writes about compassion to his friend Timothy:+In 1 Kol, the apostle Paul writes about compassion:
  
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 12 Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, [...] 12 Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, [...]
 </color>(1 Kol 3, 12) </color>(1 Kol 3, 12)
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 +For me compassion and passion are quite close to each other. 
  
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 Here, in the holiness which HE creates (not us), we can develop the flame of love Here, in the holiness which HE creates (not us), we can develop the flame of love
-and truth which he wants to ignite. We can let our hearts become compassionate. But +and truth which he wants to ignite. We can let our hearts become passionate and compassionate. But it is not to boast, but to live in his kindness, in his humility, in his meekness and
-it is not to boast, but to live in his kindness, in his humility, in his meekness and+
 patience.  patience. 
  
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 I have them as deep desire in me,  I have them as deep desire in me, 
 but it looks like being difficult to live in a very competitive environment but it looks like being difficult to live in a very competitive environment
-in which I have grown into. It is good to be compassionate about everything you do. +in which I have grown into. It is good to be passionate about everything you do. 
 And it is good to do things in purity, in truth. If you do them for themselves, humility And it is good to do things in purity, in truth. If you do them for themselves, humility
 and meekness is not far but is there already. The thing speeks for itself. This gives and meekness is not far but is there already. The thing speeks for itself. This gives
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