Emphasis Preaching Journal

God's willingness to sympathize with us in our weakness can teach us to do so on behalf of others. But translating sympathy into appropriate acceptable behavior on behalf of another without destroying his/her dignity is no easy task. Jean-Baptiste Corot, a French impressionist painter, was a colleague of the artist Honore Daumier. The latter was very poor in his old age. On his sixty-fifth birthday, nearly blind, he was threatened with eviction from his little cottage because he could not pay the rent.