True
story: Many years ago, I went to a Christmas function at a Lutheran
Church to raise money for homeless women shelter. The choir was singing.
Everyone was polite and well dressed. They were serving food at the
end of the ceremony. An African American homeless man had come into the
church down stairs and used the rest room to wash himself up. I guess
some of the guest had encountered him because
the whispers started circling the room at how awful the bathroom
smelled. The man came up stairs and joined the party. He had cleaned
himself so much so that I didn't realized I was talking with the
homeless man. He had on a clean shirt and shorts. Mind you when I looked
at him I saw something was a miss with he clothes but really it went
over my head because the man was articulate and fairly young. I would
say late 30's. I was thinking to myself, hey maybe he just fell on hard
times. It happens to the best of us. Right? So, the homeless man helped
himself to some food and was chatting it up with other guess before long
the police showed up and arrested the man. Not only was a livid, I was
disgusted at they hypocrisy. A ceremony for the homeless and they arrest
a homeless man was wanting to eat and socialize like a human being.
This all happened inside of a church. I didn't make a fuss because I was
invited by a friend of a friend who held a position at that church and I
didn't want to make waves for that person. I didn't want to ruin's
somebody's situation when ultimately the homeless was going to be let go
with a warning in a few hours anyway. It baffles me how people can do
such harsh things to each other when it just us on this planet.
Baltimore has become like 10 people in a bathroom with the doors locked
and the lights out all beating the hell out of each other and somebody
broken the mirror and made a knife and one of them rascals snuck a gun
up in the that joint.
The new year is a new beginning for us all. Many people have new year resolutions, but what we really need is a re-charge of the ole' motivational battery to keep us going. It's really motivation that gets us going and after years of upsets and setbacks, quite frankly we need re-charge. Just wonder, what if there was a motivational charging station. How much would you pay for that? So for the new year of 2012. Make your self a new. Keep those promises to yourself. Try to better yourself. Don't just say it in your mind, but mean it. I know it's hard, but hell life is no walk in the park. Give your new life a chance to be realized. Often times, right around the end of January we even forget we had a check list of things we want to change about ourselves, because life keeps us busy. But not this year, right! Like you, I want to be a new person by 2013. I want to be that one person who actually has their checklist out in October still checking off personal goals that ...
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