I remember growing up in New Orleans, Louisiana and at a very young age... 5 years old and noticing how many folks were very kind and friendly when they were in certain public places...
In shopping malls, grocery stores, schools... in libraries no one had better even utter a word....
But whenever I found myself in secluded places with only one or a few...
Sometimes, many folks who I saw in my everyday life seemed to be a different person in private!
Such folks snickered about the poor behind closed doors amongst those who were of the same cloth...same heart and mind!
They were only kind when they were being observed by many forgetful of HIM above who not only sees all that we do and hears all that we say...
but HE READS HEARTS that are unspoken whether they be pure or they be filled with filth of deceit, jealousy, prejudices, anger unforgiveness and bitterness...
I recall my mother taking me and my two brothers into the big city for both Carrollton and Okeanos Parades...
And watching a policeman handcuff and paddle with his baton... A HOMELESS MAN WHO WAS HUNGRY...
Straggly and had to be cold for he had no coat and Momma had each of us wrapped up with sweaters, hats and scarves and over coats!
The policeman was arresting this hungry tattered homeless man for sneaking/stealing a lucky hot dog from a vendors cart.
How many of those who were raised from their youth amidst violence would not have ever become violent themselves if all mankind had always been compassionate and kind...
Like the Good Samaritan who took care of the traveler whom he happened upon along his own journey... who had been robbed and beaten and left to die...
Why was that man who snuck the lucky hot dog that turned pout not to be lucky for him...
Why was he left to starve in the first place? Where were his brothers and sisters who should have lovingly been feeding him good things all along?
They were all there looking on watching both a Mardi Gras Parades and his arrest as entertainment all at the same time!
EstherStephanada & Billy-Jacob here asking you... What are YOU not your church or your Rotary Club doing...
But what are you doing NOW during This Holy Week to alleviate the suffering of another that GOD can draw both you and
them more deeply within himself?
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