If you’ve ever seen a homeless person begging on the street corner for change, then you know that only a small fraction of the people that see that person bother to help them. Sadly, this is because most people assume that the homeless will spend the money on drugs or alcohol.
One 5 year old named Josiah Duncan saw a man with nothing but a backpack and a bicycle. When he asked his mother Ava about the man, she told him that he was homeless.
Josiah was disturbed by the fact that the man didn’t have any food, and immediately went to help out.
The man was sitting in the restaurant and no one went to give him a menu. Josiah went to the man, offered him a menu, and asked his mother to buy the man some food. He then sat with the man until the food arrived, and said prayers over the food before he ate.
By the time for food arrived, the whole restaurant was touched.
Demonstrations like these show us that we should take our cues from children more often. The world would be a much better place if we all followed Josiah’s example.
