empathic understanding..

This evening I attended Session 3 of my Introduction to Counselling Skills course..Regular readers will know that Capitalisation is not usually part of my blogging register, but I just feel like them today.
We studied empathy this evening. Its such a strange thing to talk about - something so vastly abstract and so indefinable, it was good for me linguistically if nothing else. It really did make me wonder though, why the word doesn't really appear in the Bible. It seems to me like such a Godful emotion, and surely a founding principle in so many things such as mercy, compassion, love and also intercession. How interesting that we live in such a time as this, that psycho-babble and spiritual principles can overlap in such a way that so much of what we believe actually is being expressed in places like the seminar room this evening, just without anyone actually talking about Jesus.
Am still enjoying God's company.
That's about all for now, I think.