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Five-year-olds seemingly ask questions non-stop. Sometimes, those queries make their parents uncomfortable—what happens when we die, how do babies get into mommy's tummy, why are we driving so fast that policeman behind us wants us to pull over? But when that parent can give a direct answer, it can make a huge difference to someone in need.

Thus, when 5-year-old Josiah Duncan recently spotted a man outside a Waffle House restaurant in Prattville, Ala., with only a bag and a bike, he asked his mother, Ava Faulk, a question about him. Faulk told her son that he was homeless, and Duncan asked what that meant.

After she explained it, though, Duncan—apparently troubled by the idea that this man had no food to eat—had a request for his mom. Buy this man a meal, he told her.

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"[The man] came in and sat down, and nobody really waited on him," Faulk explained. "So Josiah jumped up and asked him if he needed a menu because you can't order without one."

The man insisted on a cheap hamburger to start, but he was assured he could have anything he wanted. He got the works.

"Can I have bacon?" Faulk remembers him asking, "And I told him get as much bacon you want."

Before the man could take the first bite, Josiah insisted on doing something.

"I wanted to say the blessing with him," Duncan said.

When the pre-meal blessing was complete, there apparently wasn't a dry eye in the place. And Josiah's actions filled his mother with pride.

"You never know who the angel on Earth is, and when the opportunity comes you should never walk away from it," Faulk told the TV station. "Watching my son touch the 11 people in that Waffle House tonight will be forever one of the greatest accomplishments as a parent I'll ever get to witness."

http://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/...e-toward-homeless-man/ar-BBjWf8w?ocid=DELLDHP
 
I keep telling people, life is good.
Hey TG, good to see ya

I think im going to post more of these feel good stories with a religious side, as opposed to anti-religious stories that clutter website
 
Hey TG, good to see ya

I think im going to post more of these feel good stories with a religious side, as opposed to anti-religious stories that clutter website


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Andits, it's good to hear you also my old friend.

The negative always gets top billing over the good news. People say the world is going to hell in a hand basket, and maybe it is, but I am surrounded with beauty and good, often times I have to remind myself to stop for a moment and just enjoy the view instead of focusing on the grind.
 
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Andits, it's good to hear you also my old friend.

The negative always gets top billing over the good news. People say the world is going to hell in a hand basket, and maybe it is, but I am surrounded with beauty and good, often times I have to remind myself to stop for a moment and just enjoy the view instead of focusing on the grind.

It's really not. People just focus on the negative and forget what was bad in the past (the latter might be a good thing).
 
Not sure if it's ok to add this to your thread. I just thought it fit in with the general principal of doing good rather than doing religion.

A Sikh student from New Zealand who broke strict religious protocol by taking off his turban to help save the life of a child hit by a car has been heralded as a hero.

Harman Singh, 22, removed his turban to cradle the bleeding head of a five-year-old boy who had been struck on his way to school in Takanini, South Auckland.

Mr Singh heard the accident take place outside his home, before running outside to investigate, according to the NZ Herald.

Mr Singh and other members of the public stayed with the boy until emergency services arrived. Not long after the accident, the boy's mother arrived.

Another man, Gagan Dhillon, was on his way to work when he saw the accident and stopped to help.

He said: 'There was enough help as there was, but being a Sikh myself, I know what type of respect the turban has. People just don't take it off - people die over it.

'He didn't care that his head was uncovered in public. He just wanted to help this little boy.'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...e-year-old-boy-seriously-injured-hit-car.html
 
The problem is what people sometimes think is correct isn't always.


And that is exactly why as Catholics we are grateful for the gift of the Magisterium which guarantees us the truth when it speaks infallibly.
 
Frankly I don't see what religion has to do with either of these deeds.
 
Frankly I don't see what religion has to do with either of these deeds.

Apparently it was important to the participants. The little boy in the first story said grace with the homeless man. That's something only a child steeped in a religious family would do. In the second story the guy who took his turban off did so in direct opposition of all he'd been taught about his own religion - which he obviously believed deeply in or he would not still have been wearing a turban in the first place.

I'm not sure how Sikhism works. Perhaps it works something like Judaism and pikuach nefesh. In Judaism it is permitted (encouraged, even) to break the rules if someone's life or well-being hangs in the balance.

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/pikuach_nefesh.html
 


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