catydid52

People Turn a Blind Eye to the Blind



Posted: Saturday, February 19, 2011

by catydid52

It never ceases to amaze me how uncaring and selfish this world is becoming. Are there any compassionate people left in this universe. They seem to be few and far in between.

Today I was on my way home from grocery shopping, as I pulled my shopping cart behind me, I reveled in the warm weather and the snow less sidewalks for the first time in three weeks.

I nearly reached the corner where the sidewalk ended, and the street began when I looked across to the opposite side of the street to see a blind man swishing his white cane from side to side. His cane moved frantically from the sidewalk to the curb where snow was piled up high. He was getting more frustrated by the minute, as he stood there moving his cane back and forth trying to find the place to cross.

I looked at the traffic on the street, noting that no one was even slowing down, or stopping to help this blind man who was trying to cross the street.

Inside I felt disgusted at this fast paced world, where no one has the time or inclination to stop what they were doing to give aid to this helpless man.

My heart went out to him and so I decided to cross the street and help him. I reached him as he was swishing his cane dangerously close to the street, he yelled something out that I could not decipher.

I told him that I would help him cross the street. He took my hand, and told me that he wanted to cross the street and stay on the main street to go to the small plaza.

It is the little things or deeds in life that keep us humane. The second commandment in the Bible is what we need to practice with our fellowman, 'Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.' We are not loving our neighbors when we see them in distress and just walk, or drive on by.

Helping someone else other than ourselves means that we have stretched the hands of love, compassion, and empathy to some one less fortunate than ourselves.
Catharine Leona Joy Minter Parks was born in Chatham Ontario to a Canadian mother and an American father.

Her early childhood was spent in the church under a strict upbringing but at an early age started to desire more. With an adventuresome spirit she would join her brother in escaping the house after bedtime and going downtown with him to dances, plays and the movies, to enjoy all the things that her religious parents denied her.

Catharine's love of words started from early childhood when she would make up words and songs. In 1983 she was gifted with songwriting and recorded several songs of her own as well as the song, Proud to be Canadian.

On January 25, 2007, she published her first devotional, A Glimpse of the Cross, on the Mustard Seed Ministries Site. Cliffhanger was published in Fate Magazine Nov. 2007

To read more check out her blog: http://catharineparks.blogspot.com/
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