Compassion is the sympathetic pity and concern
for the sufferings or misfortunes of others.
According to USA Today (https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2020/09/04/coronavirus-stimulus-covid-19-causes-evictions-and-home-buying-boom/5689871002/
) millions of Americans face evictions, others buy dream homes during
COVID-19. It relates that some people
can afford to flee cities and upgrade their life at a time when the median
price for a home is at its highest ever.
Others are so confident that they will never own a home.
However, there are many others who only
rent the place where they are residing and they are finding that renting is
becoming impossible! They have lost
their jobs, they have no money to pay rent, their landlords are now deciding
they don’t want them “freeloading” in their rental properties any longer and
are having them evicted.
What is a person to do when they have only
the terrible decision between paying rent or putting food into the mouths of
their family? There seems to be some
possible “breathing room” for individuals or families with the new eviction
moratorium that the Trump administration put into place to allow many renters
to avoid eviction through December 31, 2020.
However, according to the New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/02/your-money/eviction-moratorium-covid.html
) the qualifications to avail yourself of this provision are a bit subjective.
Then you look at the problem with a lack
of food, or at least with the financial conditions such that many people cannot
afford to obtain the food that they need.
The USDA and the Food and Drug Administration are closely monitoring the
food supply chain (in the United States) for any shortages in collaboration
with industry and their federal and state partners. According to them (https://www.usda.gov/coronavirus/food-supply chain#:~:text=Q%3A%20Will%20there%20be%20food,low%20before%20stores%20can%20restock
) there are no nationwide shortages of food, although in some cases the
inventory of certain foods at your grocery store might be temporarily low
before stores can restock.
These are difficult times and there are
many people and businesses trying to do something with compassion in their
hearts to help their fellow man.
However, we can continue to see that this is not true of many. The crime and violence that grows within
communities is unprecedented.
We must search within ourselves and find
the quality of compassion that our creator has put within us as we were made in
his image. We are reminded at Romans
9:14, 15, “What are we to say, then? Is there injustice with God? Certainly
not! For he says to Moses: ‘I will show mercy to whomever I will show mercy,
and I will show compassion to whomever I will show compassion.’ So, may God have mercy and compassion upon us
and may we imitate this quality and have mercy and compassion upon our fellow
man. The major problem with all that is going on
is, that we’re only human!
QUOTE TO CONSIDER
THOUGHTFUL GEM
"When you suffer and moan,
I feel your pain in my heart."
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