Church Musings

Illustration found here.Sometimes I just sit in church and muse about the words flying by (we don't have much quiet time in our church; sometimes I long for the old days in mission lands where you could chew on a sentence while it was being translated into another language). Last weekend the following question occurred to me around offertory time:

Does it strike anyone else to wonder about the fact that "sympathetic," "apathetic," and "empathetic," all contain the word "pathetic," and what that means at a deeper level?

Lucky for you and me that I take my little notebook to church, and wrote it down.