Happy New Year everyone! Some reflections..
Happy New Year from Calgary Alberta! Uneventful New Year's Eve.... There was a day many years ago when it was Rock on - Let's party, Yahoo! And copious quantities of intoxicating beverages would...
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garyhaupt wrote:
"Another time my dad gave a guy 50 bucks who said he had to buy medicine for his sick kid. I told my dad he was probably lying and was going to spend the money on booze, drugs or something. My dad said that "whether he was lying or not says something about HIS character, but hearing someone in need and choosing not to help when I have the means, says something about mine."
Gary - a great way to conduct ourselves!
That's exactly how the DW and myself feel about those folks standing places with signs asking for help. As much and as often as we can, we give them a few $$ and maybe some encouraging words.
It's not our concern on "how they're going to use the $$". Our concern is to almost unquestioningly help right on the spot.
Their reward is right then and there, while our reward is both then and there and for all eternity when millenniums later we perhaps meet them again and they remember us.
