tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7209091428880958270.post7864168601195976120..comments2024-01-31T00:09:10.070-05:00Comments on The Being Brand: Being Concerned about "the Least of These"Judith Ellishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04593319882150923231noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7209091428880958270.post-80460313625909489942009-09-10T18:42:08.012-04:002009-09-10T18:42:08.012-04:00Thank you for your follow-up remarks, DB. They'...Thank you for your follow-up remarks, DB. They're appreciated.Judith Ellishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04593319882150923231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7209091428880958270.post-91714008454846024012009-09-10T18:30:07.532-04:002009-09-10T18:30:07.532-04:00Thank you for your offer Judith. About my comment...Thank you for your offer Judith. About my comment, I merely said it is hard to feel sorry for those people. It is not hard to feel sorry for their children.<br /><br />People are in need of help and should be helped. Those who have been overlooked by the government, plundered by banks and other big businesses and laid off, are in trouble. Let's face it, there are too many people in need these days. I'm in need. I wish I weren't because I would do more than I can to help people.<br /><br />I've been a beggar. But before that I helped to scrape homeless men up off the sidewalk, got supermarkets to donate food to feed people and given money generously to the charities that showed some results. I bear no malice toward the middle class. I try not to hold any malice at all, even toward the banks that have caused me to pour money into their bottomless pits causing me to be poor once again.<br /><br />Life comes with lessons. I don't need to learn about poverty, homelessness, insecurity and despair. But if some white collars need to learn about it, so it will be. They have no right to cry about it but it doesn't mean they don't deserve our compassion.<br /><br />Would that the wealthy vacuum heads who run things also learned the truth.<br /><br />DBDBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09144446186279708019noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7209091428880958270.post-83128748363632693722009-09-10T17:23:09.163-04:002009-09-10T17:23:09.163-04:00DB - I hear your anger. But it would not matter, f...DB - I hear your anger. But it would not matter, for me, who it is that was homeless. This is something that I would not wish on ANYBODY. Moreover, the post is mainly about children. Can you justifiably say that it is THEIR fault? <br /><br />Your comment is reminiscent of those who say "well let's give health insurance to the kids and not the parents. It's the parents' fault." Well, who's raising the kids? Are they raising themselves? And will they be forced to do so if their parents got sick? <br /><br />I also think many times we are so caught up in our own stuff--anger, envy, regret, etc.--that we cannot see the pain of others, deservedly or not. This is limiting and narrow. It also does nothing about our situation. I would hope that such could be looked beyond at some point. These types of held emotions engender bitterness and prohibit our own progress.<br /><br />By the way, DB, dear sir, wanna come and live with me? My home can be yours.Judith Ellishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04593319882150923231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7209091428880958270.post-71790198641772327712009-09-10T15:54:02.374-04:002009-09-10T15:54:02.374-04:00Judith, from one who never had a real home, it is ...Judith, from one who never had a real home, it is hard to feel sorry for the middle class, white collar worker who lost his. The evidence and reality of homelessness and poverty have been staring people in the face for decades. I early on grew tired and angry hearing from those same middle class people about the homeless that they refuse to do any work.<br /><br />DBDBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09144446186279708019noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7209091428880958270.post-91489778399315188322009-09-10T14:09:17.872-04:002009-09-10T14:09:17.872-04:00Thank you, Kelly, for your blessing. I receive it ...Thank you, Kelly, for your blessing. I receive it kindly. <br /><br />The questions to each of us should be: <br /><br />1) What are we going to do about this situation in and around our communities? (I refer here to situations of properties we own that are all in the suburbs.) <br /><br />2) When are we going to call and write our representatives in Congress and demand action?Judith Ellishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04593319882150923231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7209091428880958270.post-38335961772599996032009-09-10T14:04:25.892-04:002009-09-10T14:04:25.892-04:00Judith, those children will always remember your k...Judith, those children will always remember your kind words, gentle approach and genuine attentiveness. God bless you for all that you do for the struggling within your community.<br /><br />I agree with you wholeheartedly that our country needs a boost of compassion and understanding in order for our children to feel that they are not forgotten. My heart aches for all those who are in such scary circumstances now.septembermomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01570525910483384484noreply@blogger.com