I saw a poor woman
in ragged and dirty clothes entered the church. She immediately went straight to the bench ​and knelt down.
I immediately felt
as if my heart was about to stop beating, and couldn't hold back my tears. I could tell she was very poor from her looks. She was very thin, clearly hadn't eaten for days. I could even say she had no home and just wandered from place to place carrying a dirty sack in her hand. That was all she had I believed. But she came to the church and knelt down and prayed. That was the 2nd time ​seeing somebody like her praying. Seeing her praying, I prepared right away some 50-peso bill in case she got near me because she was benches away from me. But she stood up after few minutes without looking my way ​and went out of the church. I watched her until she was out of my sight. That was all I did. I should have done the right thing by approaching her and offering her the money but I didn't. Nowadays, whether you live in the city or in the countryside, it's so hard to cope being poor. You don't have enough money to buy your needs and you barely make ends meet. It's worse for poor people who never went to school and who have no skills because they can't get a job and no business wants to employ them. All left for them to do is to scavenge the garbage for anything they can sell or wander from place to place to beg. They wander and live in the streets and at night when they rest and sleep, they're found on the sidewalks sheltered by the structures around the city. Many times in our lives we let opportunities to help pass us by. No wonder, troubles and problems are always there because we don't give a damn. Helping the poor is always a good thing, like opening a savings account in the bank. In time to come, we receive blessings from God much like reaping interests from our bank deposits. We will receive back what we heartily and kindly give. ​
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