Here’s a thoroughly heart warming piece of good news straight out of a child’s storybook with a storybook’s tearfully happy ending. A young boy with a serious disease is granted a wish and uses it to feed people who are homeless. This little tale is a precious gift to all who read it in the the holiday season.
Read more at WTMZ-TV News: 13-year-old uses granted wish to feed the homeless
Charming indeed, But it’s no way to run a railroad! It is surely shocking, horrifying, that in a country of incalculable riches there are those without homes, and without enough food to feed themselves and their children. However, those homeless stand available by the hundreds of thousands in order to play stock characters in a delightful child’s Christmas tale of kindness in the face of adversity.
Where are our leaders? Solving “important” problems. Planning/prosecuting wars on the opposite side of the globe. (Yesterday Afghanistan, tomorrow Ukraine? Taiwan?) Firing a rocket into space to destroy a marauding asteroid. And so on.
But, for the citizenry without permanent shelter or even enough food to eat, there is a permanent “Out To Lunch” sign hanging on the office doors of a nation’s leaders.
Not by any means to point the finger exclusively at the United States. When in comes to homelessness, a plague of senior leadership dithering infects most advanced nations. For a little déjà vu all over again, consider the Canadian article linked below out of the heart of winter in Sudbury, Ontario, where a nine-year-old is being hailed for his assistance to people who are homeless in his community. Try: Sudbury, Ontario Homeless Services: To Cap or Not To Cap? Ask A 9 Year Old
So leave the problem to nine and thirteen year-olds? The Canadian story delves a little more deeply into what children and their parents are up against at the local city level. How aware are national leaders that even though the problem is most keenly felt in the local community, it needs all levels of government to get on board?
