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"Personal
Compassion"
Author
and lecturer Leo Buscaglia once talked about a contest he was asked to judge. The purpose of the contest was to find the most
caring child.
The winner was:
A four-year-old child, whose next-door neighbor was an elderly gentle man, who had recently
lost his wife. Upon seeing the man cry, the little boy went into the old gentleman's yard, climbed onto his lap, and just
sat there.
When his mother asked him what he had said to the neighbor, the little boy just said,
"Nothing, I just helped him cry."
Question: Can you measure the compassion President George W. Bush has demonstrated concern his blatant
murdering of hundreds of thousands of fellow human beings called Iraqis? GWD
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Teacher Debbie Moon's first graders were discussing a picture of a family. One little boy in
the picture had a different hair color than the other members. One of her students suggested that he was adopted.
A little girl said, "I know all about adoption, I was adopted."
"What does it mean to be adopted?"
asked another child.
"It
means", said the girl, "that you grew in your mommy's heart instead of her tummy!"
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An eye witness account from New York City,
on a cold day in December, some years ago: A little boy, about 10-years-old, was standing before a shoe store on the roadway,
barefooted, peering through the window, and shivering with cold.
A lady approached the young boy and said, "My, but you're in such deep thought staring in that window!"
"I was asking God to give me a pair of shoes," was the boy's reply.
The lady took him by
the hand, went into the store, and asked the clerk to get half of a dozen pairs of socks for the boy. She then asked if he
could give her a basin of water and a towel. He quickly brought them to her.
She took the little fellow to the back part of the store and, removing her gloves,
knelt down, washed his little feet, and dried them with the towel.
By this time, the clerk had returned with the socks. Placing a pair upon the boy's
feet, she purchased him a pair of shoes.
She tied
up the remaining pairs of socks and gave them to him. She patted him on the head and said, "No doubt, you will be more comfortable
now".
As she turned to go, the astonished kid caught her by the hand, and looking up
into her face, with tears in his eyes, asked her,
"Are you God's wife?"
This is shared - not to give credit to any fictitious God - but to acknowledge examples of fine, compassionate,
sensitive human beings.
If you know the Bible's chapters and verses concerning the character of
its God, fictitious or not, you would soon realize that this Biblical God is no model of compassion.
Thank you so much, Leo Bascaglia. Gary DeVaney
The Mexico-US-Canada Superhighway
http://www.greatdreams.com/political/superhighway_facts.htm
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