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What's not quite right with this picture is that Sophiee started something very positive here and someone had to come along and add some negative comments to the thread. And someone has to always has to dig for more negative. It seems almost like an obsession.


Ok Gretta I'll give you a story about a couple that were good xians.

This xian couple weren't well off and many times struggled to pay their bills. They met a divorced woman who had two children and was struggling to make ends meet with nothing extra to take care of any emergencies or other things that popped up.

This woman drove an old s-10 pick up which was so rusted that the back end was about to fall off. It had no brakes and the tires were bald. This couple bought her brakes and found someone to put them on for free. They searched for four good but used tires paid for them and had them put on the truck. Now the sad part of all this is that this woman went to a well to do church that had their hands out for their fix'em ups at the church. (You know we need new carpeting etc.)

One yr. the woman couldn't scrape enough together to pay the taxes on her home, which wasn't really that much but for her it was beyond her means of getting it together. Now many of the church people balked about her asking for help here because they figured if she could afford a house she could afford the taxes. The catch was, it was cheaper for her to pay the house payment then it would be for her to rent. The house was fairly new and was in a small town which made the payments and taxes low.

Problem was this couple couldn't afford to give her the money for the taxes either, but the woman went to the church and wanted to know just why the church was not reaching out to this woman in need? She had never asked for help from them or anyone else for that matter before. She didn't even ask the couple for help they just saw her need and gave it. And yes they knew that there would be nothing returned.

So see I do know of good xians. That couple continues to help those they see in need and if they could do it with out anyone knowing that they were they would still do it. Problem is when you give to charities or go though organizations to take care of things the person you're wanting to help doesn't get the full benefit of your giving.