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Abandoned Children

“Brothers and sisters, you should love all the abandoned children. If you could only know how sad it is to be alone and abandoned, especially at a very young age. These children are an opportunity for you to love them as parents. To protect someone who’s been cast aside, to keep children from hunger and cold, to minister to their soul, guiding them straight, is an act of divine love. Indeed, to care for an abandoned child is to please God, since it shows that you understand and practice the Divine Law. Think, too, of the possibility that the child you are helping may once have been someone dear to you in a previous life and that if you could remember it, you would now see your beneficial act as a duty rather than an act of charitableness.
In this way, every suffering soul is your brother or sister and has a right to your help. This shouldn’t, however, be the kind of help that hurts one’s self-respect, nor the kind of handout that burns the hand that receives it. Unfortunately, to receive help hurts, and many times persons receiving it would refuse it if their only other options weren’t sickness and misery. So when you give, do it with sensitivity; and along with the benefits you offer, give the most precious of all- a kind word, a loving gesture, a friendly smile. Don’t be patronizing- it only turns the dagger of suffering in the receiver’s heart and causes more bleeding.
Consider, too, that by doing good, you’re working for your own benefit as well as for those you love.”

A Spiritual Friend, Paris,1860-  The Gospel - Explained by the Spiritist Doctrine, Chapter XIII, Allan Kardec

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