Togetherness is more than aid!

Recurrently I came across with this side comment from people who are not jobless and perhaps did not experience of losing a job, saying, "One will not be impoverished if she/he's not lazy."  Even Philippines' Budget Chief Benjamin Diokno recently made a comment identical to this.

For others, this adage could be applicable especially when you own a piece of land because you could at least strategize to source out for your own food by simply planting different crops.  But what about these people in the cities who never acquire a piece of land. 

Of course these jobless could approach significant others to provide them source of income like laundry, household tasks and other blue collar jobs.  However, remember that there are individuals who turn to be pessimistic brought by frequent frustrations and rejections caused by uncompassionate others. 

Hence, poverty is not generally a question of unwillingness to work but could be equated to the number of opportunities that individuals/relatives/group/corporate have opened for these jobless.  Absolutely, there are lazy but not majority of them, knowing the resourcefulness of Filipino families.

Reality check:  These people could not could provide a job to any of these individuals who are experiencing poverty, are not the right people to grumble.

Contemplate on this: (catechism of the Catholic Church CCC 2443)

God blesses those who come to the aid of the poor and rebukes those who turn away from them: "Give to him who begs from you, do not refuse him who would borrow from you"; "you received without pay, give without pay" (Matthew 5:42;  10:8).  It is by what they have done for the poor that Jesus Christ will recognize His chosen ones (Matthew 25:31-36). When "the poor have the good news preached to them," it is the sign of Christ's presence. (Matthew 11:5; Luke 4:18)