I just finished this book (this review is also on my personal blog). It was truly amazing, showing how God can do anything, even bringing two people together from “opposite sides of the tracks” together in an inseparable friendship. It inspires, breaks your heart, and challenges preconceptions about the homeless and “least of these.” If anyone wants to borrow it from me, you are more than welcome. Just let me know. It might just change your life…
One of the best excerpts of the book follows:
Even thought I’m almost seventy years old, I got a lot to learn, too. I used to spend a lotta time worryin that I was different from other people, even from other homeless folks. Then, after I met Miss Debbie and Mr. Ron, I worried that I was so different from them that we wadn’t ever gon’ have no kind a’ future. But I found out everybody’s different–the same kind of different as me. We’re all just regular folks walkin down the road God done set in front of us.
The truth about it is, whether we is rich or poor or somethin in between, this earth ain’t no final restin place. So in a way, we is all homeless–just workin our way toward home.
Words to live by “….we is all homeless–just workin’ our way toward home.” So much that holds our attention is unworthy of the energy we give to it, that I need constant reminders of our ultimate purpose and destination. Thanks for sharing this book with us. I need to read it soon.
Paul, I agree whole-heartedly. How much time do I waste on the internet? So much that I cannot count. There are so many things I want to do that I feel matter but sometimes it’s easier just to let them fall by the wayside because they take effort and blood, sweat, and tears. I hope you get to read it because it is truly an inspiration!