Benjamin Franklin said the following:
“Many people die at twenty-five and aren’t buried until they are seventy five”.
Thinking about that quote, I think about people who through no fault of their own, have given up. They have no hope. They feel dead.
I stopped at the grocery store after exercising this morning and noticed a car parked nearby. Each window had a rug or blanket hanging covering up and protecting them from the elements. The grill on the car had been hit and the car appeared to be older.
I wondered who might be inside. I wondered if they had given up on hope.
Out in plain sight was a person apparently living in their car. I thought about the comforter we would be donating soon and wanted to stop back to hand it off to them. I cared and wondered if anyone else cared as well.
As I pulled into the same parking lot from the morning the car had moved on and was no longer there. My goal was to give the comforter to the person in the car.
I said a prayer for that person and hoped to see them again to help in some way somehow.
Hope is something that is missing in a lot of people’s lives. They don’t have much and therefore feel lost, alone and unable to think about the future as positive. They are invisible to people and in some cases feel dead.
God help those people today. Let them see Jesus from someone. Let Jesus Walk into their life through us.
Jesus watch over all those struggling in this new year. Give us eyes to see and a heart to help.
AMEN
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