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- - - - Compassion: recognizing and accepting shared humanity; action in loving-kindness — doing something about the struggle we see (embrace, assure, relate)
      - Empathy: skillset, something to be practiced and learned; understand and reflect that understanding
      - This lecture was perfectly timed by fate because I was really struggling to recognize why I felt unsafe in some of my friendships. I felt emotionally drained, emotionally and physically depended on, and I knew that those contributions are solid in friendships; but they should not be the sole things keeping the friendship standing. I struggled to label what I was burnt out by, and having compassion and empathy laid out clearly really helped. Outside of this class, I was already learning to have difficult conversations which I advocated for myself and my boundaries, and this lecture in particular put terminology to what I was questioning. Why was I tired? What was I feeling responsible to do? What was I feeling "too much" of? Was I judging or helping?
- - - - Coming from a Christian background, I have often contributed my time and work by serving in the children’s ministry at various churches throughout my life. I do find her sentiment of helping resulting in satisfaction and serving in gratitude because when I serve my community, I often feel relieved. I believe this might be revealing of my inner anxieties and over-concern. Did that person get enough food? Good. Did they find their way home safely? Good.
        
        Galatians 5:13: "For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.
        
        Philippians 2:3-4: "Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others."
      - InterVarsity Christian Fellowship
        Society Church Children; Ministry
  - - - As Remen describes, helping typically leads into debt or repayment/calling it even. When I am serving at my church and at the garden in Portland, I am not expecting repayment whatsoever, so I can easily resonate with Remen’s observation.
        
        WYGTYA, Verse 13; “Surrender yourself humbly; then you can be trusted to care for all things. / Love the world as your own self; then you can truly care for all things.” (ll. 10-11).
      - Leach Botanical Gardens
        
        Vietnamese Student Association
- - - - This resonated with me because as I relate to others in my various communities and roles, I have practiced maintaining my ethical way of living. Across my roles, I have prioritized reducing the suffering of others, serving them, and helping them. In this class, I've learned that there is a difference between serving and helping. This past year, meeting others in our differences with compassion has been an active tool I've used. While maintaining my ethical way of living and boundaries, I can accept that others will think differently than me, and we can still support and love one another just as much--if not more. In full transparency, what I'm battling at the moment is when they don't think the same. Our differences stop them from making that connection.
    - - Individual: Daughter, Sister, Friend, Neighbor, Classmate, Employee
        Family: Daughter, Sister, Aunt, Niece, Cousin
        Community: Intern, Bible Study Leader, Helper, Congregation Member