what is care?

Here's an excerpt from a blog I posted over at God's Politics:

Yesterday I found myself on one side of a heated debate with my sister. I yelled, gesticulated, and argued ’til my face turned blue. She, on the other hand, remained calm, listened with an open heart, and then humbled me to oblivion by sending me this crucial Henri Nouwen passage from his text, Out of Solitude:

By the honest recognition and confession of our human sameness we can participate in the care of God who came, not to the powerful but powerless, not to be different but the same, not to take our pain away but to share it. Through this participation we can open our hearts to each other and form a new community.