Do you feel what I feel?

Empathy is one of the rarest gifts a person can offer. The dictionary defines it as understanding and sharing another person’s experience or emotions, but anyone who has ever longed to be understood knows it is much deeper than that.
Most people aren’t asking for perfection. They just want to feel seen.They want to feel heard.
They want to know that somebody recognizes the weight they’re carrying.
You can live in a house full of people and still feel unseen. You can talk to friends or family and still walk away thinking, “They didn’t get it. They didn’t get me.”
But here is the good news for your soul today:
God understands you completely.
Scripture tells us something remarkable about God’s relationship with Israel during their suffering: “In all their affliction he was afflicted.” — Isaiah 63:9 (KJV)
God didn’t look at their pain from a distance;
He felt it. He carried it with them. He entered into their struggle.
And then God says something even more intimate in Zechariah 2:8:
“He that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye.”
When life injures you, God feels it as personally as if the wound were His own.
That is empathy at its deepest level.
As you move through this day, remember this truth: God does not stand on the sidelines of your life. God walks with you.
When work feels overwhelming , God is beside you. When you’re trying to raise children and feel unsure, God guides you. When you’re rebuilding love or healing old places, God breathes compassion into your spirit.
God is not a distant friend.
He is the One who stays close when the world feels cold. He is the voice that steadies your breathing. He is the comfort that tells your heart, “You are not alone, not even for a moment.”
May you lead today, in your home, on your job, and within your relationships ,from that place of empathy. The same empathy God uses to love you.