"If we cannot love the person whom we see, how can we love the God whom we cannot see?" --- Mother Teresa
Here's is also something interesting to think about and discuss. A friend of mine posed this situation... When I went to Chipotle the other day, was a middle-aged Hispanic man sitting outside of it in a wheel chair selling these neon bright-colored key chains that appeared to have a pen hanging off of it that would light up. He was selling them for $2.00. The thought that came to my mind is 'do I have a social respsonsibility to buy this from him?' Even though I didn't want the thing he was selling, I felt like I should help the guy out. It would be different if he was standing there begging for those $2 from the lunch crowd, but he wasn't. Clearly, he was disabled, but still trying to make an effort to provide for himself and for his family in the best way he could. What would be the right thing be to do? To buy the useless goods he was selling, or just keep walking? Do we have a social responsibility towards that man? What would you do? Share your thoughts!
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