Becoming Human - How Empathy Empowers Healing & Community

God sees and cares about us as a Divine Friend. Indeed, our ability to empathize and be friendly with others is sourced from the Holy One within. This week we reflect on this and how God invites us to greater empathy, patience, and kindness for others, as well as ourselves! Read the corresponding message at https://www.swedenborgiancommunity.org/blog/empathy. Our community's affirming Swedenborgian spirituality, based on an interfaith, mystical Christianity, has deeply influenced the likes of Helen Keller, Carl Jung, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Johnny Appleseed (John Chapman), William Blake, Henry James, Robert Frost, DT Suzuki, George Inness and William Keith.