I gathered these pretties yesterday.
from my morning Bible reading:
Mercy – compassion or forgiveness shown toward someone
whom it is within one’s power to punish or harm.
Luke 6:36
Be ye therefore merciful,
as your Father also is merciful.
A merciful or compassionate man easily forgets injuries;
pardons them without being solicited;
and does not permit repeated returns of ingratitude
to deter him from doing good,
even to the unthankful and the unholy.
Clarke’s Commentary
Matthew 5:7
Blessed are the merciful:
for they shall obtain mercy.
“The quality of mercy is not strained;
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath. It is twice blessed;
It blesseth him who gives, and him who takes::
Portia in William Shakespeare’s
The Merchant of Venice
Luke 6:36 Amplified Bible
So be merciful
(sympathetic, tender,
responsive and compassionate)
even as your Father is [all these.]
Today . . . Help me exercise Mercy, Lord.
Thoughts of Grace 