'Are we all not beggars?'....
 We are all in need of  something and have to ask the other one for it as no one is self sufficient. Even though the degree of need may vary yet we are all in need of something. Who to ask is another issue, friends..... strangers...... family........and if all fail ...... a higher power........ God? So at the end of the day, in one way or the other,  we all turn to someone and or God in our moments of need. I had a conversation with a 'beggar' on the street who asked me  a question which set me thinking. He has been prohibited from entering a Chapel, where he begs for alms and that is forbidden in the Chapel. Not happy with this 'unfair' decision, he posed me the  question.......  'is there anyone who does not ask for something from someone? ' ......His question was thought-provoking and I came to realize that we are all beggars but the greatest beggar is God Himself.
It is God who is calling out to us to come to him, ....his heart is yearning for humanity - his creation - to know ...love ......serve and return to him. He cries out to those who are thirsty,  to quench at the source of the Living  Water.....He invites the weary and the heavily burdened to come and find rest in him....He reveals the depth of his love through his open-pierced Sacred Heart from the cross........ see the Heart that  loved men so much........ God is begging for love.......the lover searching out for his beloved........He never stop seeking out the lost....as the Good Shepherd going after the lost sheep........for  we have all gone astray... busy being busy.....   Scripture after Scripture is literally calling us to repent,..... change our ways,  come back to the Lord our God so as not to end in hell .....but to spend eternity with Him in heaven.....When  you seek me with all your heart, I will let you find me..... It's God who allows us to find Him even though we may think we are searching for Him. ..... For our sake, He is waiting in the Blessed Sacrament of the Altar, in the Tabernacle as a prisoner of  Love .......for our  visit to spend just some moments with Him....... He is standing at the door of each heart... knocking....and waiting to come in, if only we will open and welcome him into our hearts/lives........ At his first coming, his parents knocked on so many doors but there was no room....... no space in any Inn for Him to be born....... He is still knocking and waiting to be allowed in to hearts that will accept Him. His greatest gift that he came to give is life, .....eternal life. As Christmas draws near.. .. will He find room/space in our hearts to come and be made flesh........ dwell among us?   By welcoming him .....we can unknowingly welcome the other beggar(s) we chose not to see living all around  us.