"The Kindness and Compasion a Family can Give

"The Kindness and Compassion a Family can Give.

Theme: Kindness and helping others.

“We remember our first days in America” said a few strangers while helping us
No matter how much the strangers resembled beetles, my father always maintained that they could be angles, given to us by God to test the deepest sentiments of our hearts.

My brother had found another stranger housing and a job, encouraged him, and even given him money when he could — even though my bro had so little himself. All of this, without telling anyone.

Maybe every stranger was an address-book brother, sent to test the goodness in our hearts.


Haileab the kindhearted, the compassionate, friend to the poor and the downtrodden, the first to comfort the sick, the last the leave them, ally of his people, our father and shepherd, he has gone up, and we pray, oh, Eternal One, that you receive him.


My father was never afraid to ask for help. But he also used his own power to help others, especially the most recently arrived refugees. The poorer the refugees, and the more desperately they needed his help, the more he wanted to do for them.

Of the gifts that we can give, the greatest is to see beauty in each other — in essence, to give beauty to each other. When we give that beauty, we prepare our hearts to receive it back.