What Happens When a Homeless Man Asks You to Buy Him Some Food

Can we open our heart with compassion instead of recoiling into our own safe little world?

Photo by Matt Collamer on Unsplash

I had run into Tractor Supply to get food for my chickens and my cats. I was lingering in the lobby by the front door, looking at amaryllis and daffodil bulbs, when a tall, slightly pungent man leaned over as…