Have We Lost Our Compassion? - Gary R. Renard. A lesson of love and forgiveness. In the 1880s there was a rich rancher who lived in Texas. He was not a particularly spiritual dude, but he was very good at manifesting abundance, making some of his neighbors suspect that the two things weren’t necessarily connected. He did claim to be a Christian, but his actions in the world made this claim a doubtful one. Life Positive. Tiny Buddha.