One day this week, my daughter volunteered to feed and serve the homeless. Every Wednesday at a certain shelter the homeless are fed with business people in the community. The ones that can pay $3 a plate and if you cannot pay all that is asked is that you clear off your dirty dishes, etc.
I found this combination a bit odd. There were people there in suits, she said. But, I thought, how humbling, and supportive the experiance must be.
Volunteers getting everything ready, serving and doing the cleanup. The volunteering of food, drinks, dessert, etc. The people who care in the community .....coming to meet and mingle and talk with the people they help on an equal level. Sitting at a meal.
I had a really good feeling inside that my daughter did this. She is 19.......was moved in her heart to do it. I could not help but to feel that it was just as important as any spiritual feeding could be. The work that people do to help others, should never be discounted. I always had a problem with this in Witness thinking. We are all on this planet together. So many good things are done at all different levels.
A meal to someone hungry may be just what is needed to provide comfort .........that maybe a witness walking through the park; spotting them......giving them some spiritual encouragement. I was thinking in the witness mindset the volunteers who fed this person, would be destroyed as they are not witnesses........but the witnesses themselves would not feed this hungry person.........
you know what I am trying to say.....
purps