Giving Freely
Learning to Give Freely
May/05/11 04:31 PM
By Shelley Hendrix Reynolds
from The Huffington Post
You brush past them every day on the sidewalk, drive past them at the end of the onramp to the freeway. The homeless.
Without having a conversation with them, you know exactly how they got that way. Drug addicts. Alcoholics. Uneducated people who failed to pull themselves up by their bootstraps. Scam artists who choose not to bathe and let their teeth go to hell so they can live a life of luxury based on the quarters they collect every day.
You employ whatever judgment you conjure up that helps you reduce their humanity to the point that they become invisible.
Read the entire article.
from The Huffington Post
You brush past them every day on the sidewalk, drive past them at the end of the onramp to the freeway. The homeless.
Without having a conversation with them, you know exactly how they got that way. Drug addicts. Alcoholics. Uneducated people who failed to pull themselves up by their bootstraps. Scam artists who choose not to bathe and let their teeth go to hell so they can live a life of luxury based on the quarters they collect every day.
You employ whatever judgment you conjure up that helps you reduce their humanity to the point that they become invisible.
Read the entire article.
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