What most moves your heart?  When do you most naturally feel compassion in your heart? For me, the answer comes easily. I am most moved when I see helplessness, when I see someone or something helpless to tend to its own needs and to protect its own dignity.  
 
It might be baby, hungry and crying, too little to feed itself and to safeguard its own dignity. It might a woman in a hospital, sick, in pain, dying, helpless to get better, also unable to attend to her own dignity. It might be an unemployed man, down on his luck, unable to find work, the odd man out when everyone else seems to be doing great. Helplessness tugs at the heart. I am always touched in the softest place inside me by helplessness, by the pleading of finitude. I suspect we all are.
 
What is finitude? The finite, as we can see from the word itself, contrasts itself to the infinite, to what is not limited, to God. God, alone, is not finite. God, alone, is self-sufficient. God, alone, is never helpless, and God, alone, never needs help from anyone else. Only God is never subject to sickness, hunger, tiredness, irritation, fatigue, bodily and mental diminishment, and death. God never has to suffer the indignity of need, of getting caught short, of inadequate self-expression, of not measuring up, of being embarrassed, of being bullied, of being unable to help Himself, and of having to beg silently with His eyes for someone to come and help.
 
Everything else is finite. As humans, we are subject to helplessness, illness, lameness, blindness, hunger, tiredness, irritation, diminishment, death and within all these, we are also subject to indignity. No matter how strong and self-sufficient we might believe ourselves to be, finitude and mortality admit of no exemptions. Tiredness, illness, diminishment, death, and painful hungers will eventually find us all.
 
Knowing and accepting our finitude can help quell a lot of frustration, restlessness, and false guilt in our lives.  We need to forgive ourselves for our own limits, for the fact that we are human, finite, and are unable to provide ourselves and those around us all that we need. Inadequacy is a forgivable condition, not a moral fault.
 
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