Dec 09 2008
Give Up Your Seat
For the past year, I have gotten to know a woman at my daughter’s school bus stop. Her small two year old daughter is in a wheelchair. This morning I picked the woman up and her daughter and took them to my local MOPS meeting. I was surprised, no shocked, when she informed me of the people’s reactions to her daughter’s diability when she has to take public transportation to get where to needs to go. People mumble, grump, groan, and give her dirty looks because they have to leave their choose seat for her daughter to be bused in the handicap section of the bus, specifically for wheelchairs.
Today, if you have to take a bus, the subway, or other type of public transportation to get you on your way. I challenge you to give up your seat, slide over, go to another section, but allow someone else to have the comfort of sitting down, and if they are disabled, over to help them. No body ask for a disability.
When you give up your seat, your passing on compassion to another person. So pass it on, someone out there will catch your good deed.
