S.A.C. (Secret Agent of Compassion) Rookie Reporting on Day 4 of the Compassion Games.

Today’s mission was learning how to take compassion a step further:

To build the global network needed to further disseminate the compassion antidote, we must practice working together. So today’s mission, should you choose to accept it, is to enlist a partner in your compassion efforts.

Are you familiar with the concept 1 + 1 = 3? That’s the idea here, thattogether we are greater than the sum of our parts. There is you. There is your partner. AND there is your partnership.

Let your action of compassion emerge from your partnership.
I like to bake. No. Really. I spend a lot of time either baking or thinking …hmmm…wonder what would happen if I… I’ve seen home bakers described as mad scientists, and as an avid home baker, I’d have to agree.

For about a year now, I’ve been baking vegan and sharing what I bake with the homeless. Well, that’s not exactly true. What I actually do is bake bread and muffins on Saturdays, make up ‘take-away’ bags that each have a muffin, a piece of fresh fruit and a snack like potato chips or crackers or something small like that. Then I drop all this stuff off.

This is where the partnership in compassion begins. To be honest, I’ve never seen the place where the bread and muffins get taken to be shared. I have many partners in compassion who help each week. There’s Wendy, who drops off all the stuff; there’s Rinchen who made it possible for this to get started, and there are the people who actually host the lunch for the homeless and give away the bags I make up.

Today, as part of my mission, I brought Wendy a muffin and thanked her for being a partner in compassion.

Today’s mission made me see how much difference a partnership can make when we do acts of compassion. Me plus Wendy (1 + 1) = 12 homeless people having a little bit more to eat. Today I really understood that if we work with partners in compassion, we can ease the sufferings of many.