Prayer and the challenge of receiving compassion

- [Narrator] The importance of feeling like you have something to offer others, is especially true when you are a victim or you're in a position of having to rely on the help and kindness of others. Receiving compassion can be very difficult when you're the one who needs help. It can really change how you feel about yourself. It can make you go from feeling strong to weak, someone who was independent to someone who's now dependent. You can go from feeling in control to vulnerable and at the mercy of others, from feeling useful to being a burden. And one situation that often brings this out is getting sick. One of my friends and C-Care colleagues, Margaret Collin, works at a Northern California branch of the Cancer Support Community. She's a marriage and family therapist, but she also teaches the Stanford Compassion Cultivation course to cancer patients and their loved ones. And she shared with me that in teaching…