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The Greatest Gift We Give is Compassion
Life Lessons from A Food Pantry
June.29.202
com·pas·sion
noun
- sympathetic pity and concern for the sufferings or misfortunes of others.
Over the weeks we get to know them, the recent widow who lost her husband only a few months ago, a Mother trying to raise her children alone, still in the throws Of grief, she comes in for food, but more importantly she comes in for compassion.
Others come in too, with sad stories of their own. And on occasion we have people who come in reluctant at first, not wanting to take the help offered, a few bags of groceries, it may not sound like much, but for some it determines what they will be able to fix dinner and some without those groceries would not have dinner at all.
People could go hungry, the young, the old, children and adults, no one deserves to go hungry.
Our human compassion binds us the one to the other — not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.
Does everyone treat us with kindness, sadly not always, but as the months pass and they get to know us, walls come down. They start to open up.
