People hurt each other, neglect responsibilities, fight, argue, and do as they please. We cannot change the whole system. In this world there will be offenses, sins, abuse, oppression, atrocities. Things will happen to people that never should happen. And because of that, there will be poor people, suffering people, miserable people, wretched people, as long as we are in this world.
Mercy is more than a feeling of sympathy.
The merciful are those who respond to human need, those who move among the suffering, those who give what they have to help those who have not. To show mercy requires a particular economic outlook. Like the good Samaritan, we must take time out of our workday, lay the needy on our donkey, pour our oil upon his wounds, and use our resources to provide his bed. Our material goods are not given to us to be laid up in storehouses for personal comforts, but as trusts from a merciful Father to be used for the kingdom of God. To be merciful, we need a particular way of seeing.