When did you last 'help' someone cry?

EMPATHY…The capacity to participate in another’s feelings or ideas.

Carol Warner in her book, The Last Word, tells this story:

Her little girl was late arriving home from school so the mother began to scold her, but stopped and asked, “Why are you so late?”  “I had to help another girl. She was in trouble,” was the reply.  ”What did you do to help her?”  “Oh, I sat down and helped her cry.”

From Romans 12, “Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep.

“To handle yourself, use your head;

to handle others, use your heart.”