henrymakow.com — Jan 31, 2020

I often see this blind Mexican beggar and usually give him a few pesos.

He is there every day.

“Didn’t I give you money yesterday?” I think.

Yes but he needs to eat everyday.

Jesus:  “If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow Me.”  Matthew 9:21

By Henry Makow PhD

Why am I so stingy? Compared to this blind beggar, I have so much money. But I don’t want a dependent.

There is no disability pension in Mexico so he has thrown himself on the Mercy of his fellow man.

This is a quaint tourist town – bustling on weekends and holidays but pretty sleepy otherwise.

My restauranteur compassion syndrome  has kicked in. So many restaurants. So few customers. I feel the owner’s anxiety.

When people have no education or skills, all they can do is open a restaurant, often a hole in the wall, or a stall selling the same tired souvenirs or candy as hundreds of others.

Then there is the shoe shine man, assorted buskers and food carts, a boy selling melons from a wheel barrow, and withered old women with outstretched hands.

Everyone needs a feed. Even Wall Street bankers.

Whether stray dog, pigeon, banker or beggar, their day is dedicated to putting food in their mouth.

Stray dogs bask in the sun. A lot of people live hand-to-mouth.

People with money have no perspective. We live hand-5000-miles-to-mouth. Yet we check our nest egg, our 401-Ks constantly. Poverty is a state-of-mind and most people feel poor.

Our minds have been conditioned to covet money — a spider’s web thrown over our souls. Money (and sex) ensure that we behave as automatons.

Mathew 6:26: Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? 27 Which of you by worrying can add one [a]cubit to his stature?

BLIND BEGGAR

 

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