Sharing is caring, and it’s a truth we need to impart to our children. Too often, I see children afraid of the homeless…I listen to children make fun of the poor. It’s as though people are afraid of what they, themselves, don’t want to experience. And that fear turns to judgment, and judgment to discrimination, which in turn becomes indifference. He was a Vietnam Veteran, baking in the hot desert air, hoping that someone might care. All he owned was a bedroll, which he sat on while holding his little cardboard sign that read…”Hungry. Will work for food” We were several vehicles behind, as we approached the stop-sign where he was sitting. I watched three motor homes – each worth more than one million dollars – ease up to the stop sign, read his cardboard plea, then passed him by. I was shocked. Four more expensive motor homes did the same. When we got to the stop sign, we took a left and parked just down the road. We walked back to where he was sitting. My daughter handed him our last five-dollar bill along with her pretty finger-nail clippers and a piece of candy. This sweat-drenched old man suddenly jumped up from his bedroll and said, “Now, little girl, how did you know I need a pair of finger-nail clippers? And, how did you know I needed a piece of candy?” My red-haired daughter blushed in glee, took my hand and, as we walked away said how glad she was that we had helped him. Fifteen minutes later, we saw this man sitting under a tractor for shade, eating a sandwich and sipping a cold soda he had purchased with the five dollars we gave him. I’ll never forget that day, and I’ll always remember the gratitude he shared. WEALTH IS THE ANSWER on-line reading at sites.google/site/primalmothering/ebooks
Posted on: Sat, 29 Jun 2013 01:39:51 +0000
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