May 27, 2018

"The proper moment is when one can see things (especially what everyone has already seen) in a fresh way."
-Susan Sontag, On Photography

A time ago, I would've half-smiled at Mickey, then picked up the pace to walk away from her. I'm just introverted that way. I'm glad that my perspective is changing and my realization that all are created in God's image is affecting how I interact with those that I have yet to get to know.

Mickey turned the corner while pushing her wheel chair from behind and her husband trailing a few feet away sitting on his wheel chair.

"Are you going to the soup kitchen?", Mickey asked.

"No, I'm just going for a morning walk."

"Well, they have free breakfast and free coffee. I drink about five cups," She smiled. "If you ever want a meal on a Sunday morning, its right up the street."

Mickey can walk fine, but she pushes a wheel chair because she occasionally gets seizures and she has fallen and has had to get stitches on her head.

She and her husband have been homeless for six months. Her husband's leg is injured so he can't work. She receives social security and that allows them to live in a motel at the beginning of each month, but after the money runs out they are sleeping in the streets.

"This situation is temporary."

Please pray that Mickey and her husband are both healed of their ailments so that they both can work and have a permanent place to live.

Thanks.