"would you appreciate this?"

ON THE way home from Costco today, It was snowing/raining/spitting ice cubes. We were at the red light, and there was this old guy. I don't know, 60-70 years old, and he was walking knee deep in ice-spittle. He was holding the same old sign, saying the same old usual stuff "Hungry, Cold, I'll take ANY FOOD, God bless."

My whole entire family is very *ahem* stubborn about the whole entire, giving-hard-earned-money-to-fake-homeless-men, thing. I've never really thought about actually giving my money away, but today, while I was looking at that guy, I really felt bad. I mean, yeah; that could totally be a dollop of hoax up my alley...But, okay. So, I'm going to say this, I don't like saying it only because it sounds so cliche, and everything else, but! What Would Jesus Do? (Gah! Guilt!!)

That phrase is like a open tube of super vaseline in your purse, it just bursts in the middle and starts squeezing everywhere, and of course there is thing you can do about it. It's everywhere. There's no water, hand sanitizer, soap, nothing, that could actually take it off of your uber cool wallet. (I guess that's saying if you're a Jesus believer, you know, the real ones? Not the 'yeah-I-believe-in-Jesus-but-I'm-going-act-like-a-real-biznatch-because-i-mean-who-really-cares-anyways-? kind of Jesus believers?)

Would Jesus jump out of that car, wrap his new puff-jacket around the homeless man, and give him the apple pie in the trunk? Asking him in his voice-that-calms-storms if he has anywhere to go for Christmas, then putting him in the backseat of the car, and stopping at dunkin' donuts for a hot cocoa? (The answer is: HECK YES! HECK TO THE YES!) What kind of Christians are we, if we don't have Jesus' heart for his people? What are we showing to other people? Yeah. Christians are messed up to the 34938 degree. We gots sum issues.

Okay. So, this guy could of been Mr. druggie/drunkie. I get that. That doesn't mean I don't take the chance to not show him Jesus.

No, that doesn't mean you hand him a 20, and yell JESUS LOVES YOU! REPENT! And drive off...(the very least you could pray for them..)

FYI: I handed him $2. It's what I had in my wallet. I wished him Happy Holidays. The End.



God, thank you for vaseline in the heart. Thank you God that some things never go away in my heart, and just seem to stick to everything I do. (Even my wallet, yes)

(disclaimer: Okay. This has been preached in EVERY CHURCH IN AMERICA, WRITTEN ON EVERY CHRISTIAN BLOG, Etc, Etc,.. I know. Not very original, but It really was legit in my heart today.)


New resolution: Give money, to every homeless person I see, if I have it with me.