As the years ticked away, I impatiently awaited my arrival in the year 30. When I arrived, I looked around and saw a group of people staring at someone. It was Jesus, and he was giving his famous Sermon on the Mount containing the Beatitudes. I listened very intently. Being meciful means looking at the world, loving it, living in it, and helping with its struggles and sufferings.
Mercy is the ability to walk in someone else's shoes and feeling what other people feel.
This Beatitude says a lot in relationship to the homeless people we see almost every day on the streets pushing their shopping baskets containing all their personal items, looking for food, or holding signs asking for money. Jesus would probably stop and help these people. Jesus taught us to treat others as we would like to be treated. Try walking in the homeless person's shoes. If you look at it that way, they do deserve our help.