Empathy is feeling someone else's pain; not necesarily to find a solution but to say I see you, I fell you and I will be by your side. Empathy leads to action not just acknowledging the suffering. The best example of empathy is Jesus Christ.
God created men to be inside His community (Father, Son and Holy Spirit). When man decided to step away from God, God immediately created a plan to restore His community with man, Jesus fulfilled the promise with His death and resurrection.
Grace is believed to be an unmerited gift, yet in Hebrew, it means a wall of tents in a closed circle with the front opened and facing each other to care for each other. Foreigners were invited to come inside the camp to join the community.
God calls, we voluntarily respond and become a display of God's call to others. We learn more about what love means the more we go deeper in relationship to one another and with God.