Compassion for the poor wretched of this Earth
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As I walked down the busy sidewalk, knowing I was late for an important interview, my eye fell upon one of those obviously unfortunate, homeless vagabonds that are found in every city these days.
Wearing what can only be described as rags, carrying every worldly possession in two plastic bags; my heart was touched by this person’s condition.
Some people turned to stare. Others quickly looked away as if the sight would somehow contaminate them.
Recalling some long ago Sunday school admonition to "care for the sick, feed the hungry and clothe the naked," I was moved by some powerful inner urge to reach out to this unfortunate person.
Yes, where some people saw only rags, I saw a hidden beauty.
A small voice inside my head called out,
"Reach out, reach out!"
So I did..........
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I get out of the hospital in about 3 months.
It would be nice to get a card or maybe a visitor.
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- ROFL! Hope you get well soon ;)
- Looks like it was worth it...
- She's probably used to people giving her dollar bills, but that doesn't make her homeless. The flowers and get well card are in the mail. BTW, how did you type up this post? Did you use one of those brain-powered software programs? Cool.
- Are you really in the hospital? FYI, TypePad/SixApart is doing some maintenance and have turned off INCOMING trackbacks all day today. Hopefully they will have things working again tomorrow. I'm about ready to ditch them if I didn't hate change so much.
- Reminds me of an old joke. Fellow shows up to work on a Monday with two black eyes. After some nervous hesitation, a co-worker works up the nerve to ask: "So, Bill, how'd you get the shiners?" Bill says, "I was in church services yesterday, it was hot and particularly humid. I couldn't help noticing a rather large woman right in front of me, every time we stood up, her dress had gotten totally bunched and wedged into the back of her, you know, seat. You know I'm something of a neat freak. Well, the thing kind of became an obsession. Everytime she stood up I was going berzerk, I began to feel like I couldn't breathe! I had to do some finally, so I gave her skirt a little tug and pulled the material out of her, you know, behind. And she turned around, misunderstood what I had done and read the situation entirely incorrectly, and she slugged me with her handbag." "Well, what about the second black eye?" asked the co-worker. Bill winced, "That's from when I tucked the skirt back in."
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