Compassion

Sometimes I wonder where why we can't all just have more love and compassion in our hearts?  I don't often watch the news because it makes me ill most days to see stories of killing, road rage, abuse to children, etc....  But every once in a while I will take a peek and I was so surprised to find this story 😃  "An Indiana school superintendent is accused of pretending a sick student was her son so she could get him treatment. She's been arrested and charged with fraud, but the school board says it stands behind her.  According to court documents that detail the charges made Wednesday, Casey Smitherman, the superintendent of the Elwood School District, relied on her son's insurance when she was unable to get a sick 15-year-old treatment because she wasn't his guardian" (https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/24/health/superintendent-fraud-using-insurance-student-trnd/).  This story warms my heart because of the compassion this Superintendent showed and in doing so, got herself into legal trouble.  It also saddens me that the child was having to suffer without his own guardian taking him in for medical care.  I don't know the circumstance of why that did not happen and am grateful for the Superintendent intervening the way she did.  So thank you Casey Smitherman for going above and beyond your job expectations.  This sounds like something I would do............ 😉