Personal but not Private

From today' Purpose Driven Connection devotional:

While your relationship to Christ is personal, God never intends it to be private. In God's family you are connected to every other believer, and we will belong to each other for eternity. The Bible says, "In Christ we who are many form one body, and each member belongs to all the others." (Romans 12:5 NIV)....
God's purposes for his church are identical to his five purposes for you. Worship helps you focus on God; fellowship helps you face life's problems; discipleship helps fortify your faith; ministry helps find your talents; power helps fulfill your mission. There is nothing else on earth like the church!

If you've known me for sometime I often ask whether or not you're "happy." Not quite sure when it started but over the years I've just come to realize that most people often have a hard time answering this and rarely do I receive a confident YES. Recently, it's been super hard for me to even bother to ask. It's amazing how afraid I've become of carrying others' burdens on my heart. I read somewhere that compassion can be described as something like, "carrying your heart in mine" which is exactly what it literally feels like. My heart gets so heavy and I almost physically feel the weight of others' brokenness. Call me burnt out, tired, or even distant from God but I know He's teaching me something so incredibly valuable about His love. Though I'm not deeply intimate with Him at this moment, I know with all my stubborn heart that when He sees me He feels the weight a gazillion times more than I could ever feel or imagine. Yet, He did it. He carried and carries my heart and the rest of the world's. I want to love again, I do. Teach me to not be afraid. Teach me to be a member of your body. Teach me to love with heartbreaking joy.

Not 100% sure how the devotional is related but just felt like sharing.