A Devotional Corner

People often ask me what kind of people we meet at SHUM. Not many people think about what homeless people are like. I guess it is easy to take on the view that homeless people are just homeless, dirty, want your money and failures of society. hmm yeah some.

Gary was brought up in a foster home. He's thirty something now. He said he had been living on the streets since he was 14. He's never worked before, and don't have much education. Gary was different from most people that I have talked to at SHUM. He didn't say much. I spent the whole of that night talking to him about God, Sin , and Jesus. I am pretty sure he's heard it dozens of times, but I doubt that he really understood. The whole time he had a pleasant smile on his face. He didn't say much at all and I always wondered if he caught hold of any of what I said.
My tactic was to ask him questions. Questions, the answer to which I had given moments before. I noticed that he'd always smile and say " umm... I don't know." I adapted to that. I would say things like " God created the whole world." and then straight away ask him "What did God do?"
mean?
I hope he learnt something... Something about God. I continued to say heaps and ask heaps. So happy :D
He had a brand new bible which he was very proud of. He seemed very happy when I asked him to read Mark. He agreed to read it by next SHUM... unfortunately I won't be there... hope he finds someone to share his reading with. Hope that he has read it!

Posted by Jot.. on Monday, November 01, 2004 at 6:58 pm | Permalink