LAW DAWG
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Is it just my imagination running away with me or has the world, indeed, gotten meaner? Over the past few weeks I've witnessed two situations involving the elderly and disabled that has me pondering if it has.
One involved a situation where a person that has just recently recovered from a life threatening occurrence, life threatening surgery and has a very a close family member with a very progressive degenerative illness exhibited little to no compassion to speak of when given an opportunity to help others similarly situated.
The other situation happened days ago while I was in the grocery store. A middle age man was rolling himself around by wheel-chair, through the aisles of the store. He was repetitively pushing a grocery basket a few feet in front of him, rolling his way up to it and repeating the same sequence to move along. I first noticed him as he was making his way from the back of the store towards the front. I couldn't help but notice that no one was offering to help him, not even one of three employees of the store who were engaged in a conversation while he passed them by. My heart sunk, I thought to myself how could they see him pushing that basket ahead of him a few feet, roll himself up to it and repeat the same and not help him? Where is their compassion, where is their heart?
I made my way up to the brother to help him and I asked was he headed to check out? He said he was, I told him I'll help and pulled the cart to the check-out line for him and placed the items he had on the conveyor belt at the register. He said thanks, I said you're welcome, God bless and moved along. That brother had one leg, and his other was not in good shape.
Those aforementioned occurrences have been on my mind lately, and have me questioning the decency of humanity while wondering has the world simply gotten meaner?
Have a good number of people collectively, and errantly moved away from considering how God feels about what they think and do?
In times like these, it appears the world is in need of much prayer.
One involved a situation where a person that has just recently recovered from a life threatening occurrence, life threatening surgery and has a very a close family member with a very progressive degenerative illness exhibited little to no compassion to speak of when given an opportunity to help others similarly situated.
The other situation happened days ago while I was in the grocery store. A middle age man was rolling himself around by wheel-chair, through the aisles of the store. He was repetitively pushing a grocery basket a few feet in front of him, rolling his way up to it and repeating the same sequence to move along. I first noticed him as he was making his way from the back of the store towards the front. I couldn't help but notice that no one was offering to help him, not even one of three employees of the store who were engaged in a conversation while he passed them by. My heart sunk, I thought to myself how could they see him pushing that basket ahead of him a few feet, roll himself up to it and repeat the same and not help him? Where is their compassion, where is their heart?
I made my way up to the brother to help him and I asked was he headed to check out? He said he was, I told him I'll help and pulled the cart to the check-out line for him and placed the items he had on the conveyor belt at the register. He said thanks, I said you're welcome, God bless and moved along. That brother had one leg, and his other was not in good shape.
Those aforementioned occurrences have been on my mind lately, and have me questioning the decency of humanity while wondering has the world simply gotten meaner?
Have a good number of people collectively, and errantly moved away from considering how God feels about what they think and do?
In times like these, it appears the world is in need of much prayer.
2 Chronicles 7:14
King James Version
14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
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