to feel what others feel - 1st week lent thursday 2019

The ending of the gospel which talks about prayer is asking us to develop a sensitive heart.  Having a sensitive heart is someone who can feel what others feel.  Because if we feel what others feel we would do to others what we want others to do to us.  And the opposite too is also true, we would not do to others what we do not like others to do to us.  That was the motive too of our fasting last week – we went hungry for a day so that we could feel what hungry people experience every day of their lives and hopefully the experience would develop in us compassion for those who hunger, and lead us to action.

That is the content too of the argument on prayer – can a father have the heart to give his child a stone if he asks for bread? 

Develop a sensitive heart.  How does it feel kon ikaw na dira?  
How does it feel if you are in his shoes?  Jesus used this argument in showing us why the Father hears our prayers or at the very least why the Father cares for us.  Jesus appeals to our common humanity because he is human, he knows the human heart and the human mind, may balatyagon man sia katulad naton.  And so today we learn to develop a sensitive heart.