Be sure What you Give is Deserved

Give to the poor and needy, but make sure that they are deserving of what you give.  There are now what I call professional beggars about on the streets, who make a nice living out of the sympathy that they have learned to exude.

 

Not everybody who asks for charity is a deserving case, so I would urge you to seek proofs of their needs and to give in a way which they can benefit in the right kind of way.  There are many who really need help and they will worthy of your charity.

 

In this society of free handouts there are many who do well by playing music in the streets and giving a soft story before they spend your money in the pub or on drugs to further shorten their lives.

 

People today are so often in an easy come easy go and all they want is a quiet life.  Charity is a good mentor, but I am saying that you need to be sure where your money is going and to whom it is spent on.

 

People who collect are often genuine helpers who take no rewards, but are pleased to help by the giving of their time and don't look to the bigger picture where the lifestyle of those who work for the bigger charities enjoy many perks.

 

What they do can be well done, but that is out of your hands and I am suggesting that you look around where you live and find out those who are more worthy of a helping hand.   Many older people suffer many hardships trying to keep warm and do without food for their electric fire.

 

Mothers with children are looked after by the state and it is often the little ones who need some support as the lure of some to bingo and the pubs becomes too strong and the little ones are left behind.

 

There are social services who are paid officials that try and stop the neglect of children and old people, but they are stretched and poorly trained and guided, so neighbours need to look around for themselves and not cast a blind eye to those things that they don't want to see.

 

We are all children of the one 'God' and we are all responsible for what we do and what we do not do.  It is as bad to turn ones back on a felony as to commit it and the whole of society has equal responsibility to all members of it.

 

Do not allow the soft option to rule your actions.  Be bothered when something is wrong and in a pleasant way address it and do not walk by on the other side as too many of us do on a daily basis.

 

It is not the government's job to do everything, but our job is to create the sort of society that we want and feel instinctively is right, so we must stand up for what we believe in and to have our just desserts knowing that we have earned them.

 

Let your children know the difference between what is right and what is wrong and let them grow up to be model citizens of what they believe in the best society that they can aspire to…