A Lesson in Caring It was a cold evening. My daughter and I were walking up Broadway. I di

A Lesson in Caring
It was a cold evening. My daughter and I were walking up Broadway. I didn’t notice a guy sitting inside a cardboard box. But Nora     . She wasn’t even four, but she      at my coat and said, “That man’s cold. Daddy, can we take him home?”
I don’t remember my     . But I do remember a sudden      feeling inside me. I had always been delighted at how much my daughter noticed in her     , whether it was birds flying or children playing. But now she was noticing      and beggary.
A few days later, I saw an article in the newspaper about volunteers who picked up a food package from a nearby school on a Sunday morning and      it to an elderly person. I signed us up. Nora was      about it. She could understand the importance of food, so she could easily see how      our job was. When Sunday came, she was ready, but I had to      myself to leave the house to fetch the food package. On my way to the school, I fought a(n)      to turn back. The Sunday paper and coffee were waiting for me at home. Why do this?     , we phoned the elderly person we’d been appointed. She      us right over.
The building was in a bad state. A silver-haired woman in an old dress received us. Nora ran inside. I      followed. However, when we talked, I was moved by her struggle against the hard life and realized what our little help meant to her. When the time came to say goodbye, we three hugged. I walked home     , touched.
Professionals call such a      “a volunteer opportunity”. They are opportunities and I’ve e to see.      else but as volunteers do you have the opportunity to do something      that’s good for others as well as for yourself? Nora and I regularly serve meals to needy people and      clothes for the homeless. Yet, as I’ve      her grow over these past four years, I still wonder – which of us has benefited more?
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