Divine Mercy

We must have mercy. Mercy on those who hurt us, hurt others, hurt themselves, need help, those who are lacking, and all of this because Mercy is one of the most powerful characteristics of Love. Love is not selfish, it is not jealous, and all of the things we know about it. We can say the same about Mercy.
It's interesting to think that there is a feast day dedicated to Divine Mercy, but not to "Divine Love," or "Divine Charity." I suppose it it is possible that there is a mistic somewhere in the world right now understanding and being lifted up to those amazing heights. However, someone lifted up to know all of love would probably end up ascending in to Heaven, just like Mary. Perhaps Mercy is more feasable for our minds to comprehend. It is a part of Love that we can actually wrap our minds around and fully embrace, and move beyond the understanding of Mercy in to the infantile comprehension of love (which actually, infantile may be the only true way to love) but we can never know Love completely, until we live with it in Heaven. Mercy actually has limits around it. We can mostly see where it begins and ends. However, I am making it sound like it is a small thing, but it isn't. It requires suffering. Anything that requires someone to offer something up requires suffering, and kind of death to self. Where there is suffering, that is where love and mercy have there kinetic energy, like a spiritual rubber band stretched and ready to explode with love and grace and kindness, or despair and sadness. Wow, it's no wonder that the devil and his minions attack us at such times. Happiness and joy are truly a result of suffering. It's always the result of suffering because it was from the garden of Eden where Adam and Eve were first cast out. Since their sin, they had to toil to earn their first moment of happiness, which probably did not come for a long time, because everything had been given to them prior to that point. Now, their happiness would always come from an element of suffering. We too derive happiness from suffering, even though we may not see it. Somewhere, some comfort that we are looking at, or eating, drinking, has come from the result of some one suffering to give us that pleasure. Sure enough, they have derrived pleasure from the money they earned for their own labor, but also, in their enjoyment at the expense of suffering.
When we have spiritual happiness, and contentment, we also have that contentment, most obviously from Christ's suffering. This is true Mercy. Suffering, no matter how great or little, but knowing, and purely for the sake of bringing happiness and peace to another human being. We can be instruments for bring temporal happiness to someone, but only Christ can bring the Spiritual happiness. Through the Divine Mercy, we appropriately exault the Passion of Christ. For the sake of His sorrowful passion, (suffering) He has Mercy on us and on the Whole World.