Reflection

Who Is More Deserving?

Who is more deserving, who should receive the coin in my hand?

Do I help the mother with two children who sits with hand outstretched just a few yards from another woman who sits alone also with hand outstretched?

Do I help the mother with two young children by her side or the one who who soon will have another baby to join the one that sits by her side?

Who is more deserving, who should be helped?

Do I help the the man blind man who sits day after day, sometimes offering music in return for some type of donation?

Or perhaps I need to offer my coin to the man who sits on the curb beside his crutches?   But what about the man who sits beside the device that helps him to move his legless body?

Who is more deserving, who needs the help?

Should I give the coin to the elderly woman who sits in the midday sun with a cloth over her face as shelter from the heat?  Or perhaps the child who stands alone when he should be in school.

Who is more deserving, who should receive the single pitiful coin that I can offer? 

Jesus said that the poor would always be with us?  

But did he mean like this?  Homeless, rejected, ignored, passed by with out even a glance.  

Desperate people coming each day to work at the same corner or patch of ground in hopes of some act of kindness, charity, goodness, or guilt from those who pass by.  

Who is more deserving, who should receive the coin I hold in my hand?