{"id":27,"date":"2016-01-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/house-of-freedom.com\/beggar-messenger\/"},"modified":"2022-03-25T20:05:59","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T20:05:59","slug":"beggar-messenger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/house-of-freedom.com\/beggar-messenger\/","title":{"rendered":"Beggar Messenger"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cYou don\u2019t have $5 to loan me.\u201d He said this more like a statement than a question. He was dragging his legs toward me and looked as beaten a human being as I had been feeling. I heard a funny squeak before his words came out as if he\u2019d been priming the pump to use his vocal cords.<\/p>\n

My instant reply was, \u201cNo, I\u2019m sorry I don\u2019t.\u201d I had arrived at my old Honda in the parking lot and got in. He stood outside my door, a respectful distance, and just stared. I wondered if he judged that I looked better off than he, so why didn\u2019t I give him $5. I also had the fleeting feeling that he might just be the Christ himself disguised as a beggar.<\/p>\n

The truth is my pockets are empty right now and I\u2019m pinching my pennies. His assumed request was easy for me to deny\u2014\u201cyou don\u2019t have $5 to loan me.\u201d I could just as easily have replied, yes that is true<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I drove off thinking about how we really do tell the universe what it is we want, and the universe responds accordingly.\u00a0 I wondered about the beggar\u2019s psyche. Does he believe he is so undeserving, so filled with poverty that he would declare that I would not give him $5, when mostly likely he was hoping I would?<\/p>\n

But on further reflection, he didn\u2019t say I would not give it to him (or loan it though I wouldn\u2019t have expected it to be returned). He said, \u201cYou don\u2019t have $5 to loan me.\u201d\u00a0 I think he really was a messenger showing me like a clear mirror, my current situation. If I caught a glimpse of myself in the mirror with my hair all tussled, my response would be to reach for a hairbrush.<\/p>\n

So here I sit, applying myself toward remedying the predicament of being unable to assist a beggar in need.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cYou don\u2019t have $5 to loan me.\u201d He said this more like a statement than a question. He was dragging his legs toward me and looked as beaten a human being as I had been feeling. I heard a funny squeak before his words came out as if he\u2019d been priming the pump to use […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":112,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/house-of-freedom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/house-of-freedom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/house-of-freedom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/house-of-freedom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/house-of-freedom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/house-of-freedom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113,"href":"https:\/\/house-of-freedom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions\/113"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/house-of-freedom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/house-of-freedom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/house-of-freedom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/house-of-freedom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}