What Life In The Streets Looks Like On Other People

Next time I see them, I'll try to get a picture to share of the young people we met yesterday. Two boys and a girl, they were white kids, had dreads, two dogs, backpacks. Someone told us about them two weeks ago, but we never did see them until yesterday. We were so excited! I pulled up to the curb and said, "Would you guys like some lunch?" They were all yes maam and smiles. They were polite, and stayed sitting on the ground and were so happy to see clean new socks. This is a different kind of face you see in the streets. They don't appear to be strung out on drugs, they are pleasant, it doesn't seem to be a crisis for them.
I've been given the opportunity one other time recently in Prattville. I was over by the bowling alley seeing my friend and boss lady Barbara Hartley and I saw these two young men walking up the street, back packs, long dreads, green military looking clothes, which is how this particular group like to dress. I guess it's because the military surplus places are very handy for their lifestyles and their wallets. Y'all know how loud I am, so I whistled and waved for them to stop. They were walking up the sidewalk and something you don't see often in Prattville is homeless people, or people passing through. They aren't having it. It's just not something that happens. They will in no uncertain terms ask you to move on. They waited for me and I just happened to have $10. This is all God because I carry a card and I never have cash on me, except for instances such as this. I gave them the money and told them Jesus loved them and they both asked me if they could give me a hug and they were so thankful, so happy!
These beautiful people understand what resting in God's love is. They are a complete illustration of Matthew 6:26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?
They don't seem to be worried about a thing.  They are just moving along in their lane, living life in every moment.  It doesn't seem to be a problem they aren't really headed anywhere in particular, they don't have a bed to sleep in, or a roof over their head.

I'm seeing it more and more.  We want to fix stuff, help folks and do this that and the other, but the people I meet in the streets of Montgomery Alabama, they don't seem to mind their situations y'all.  They seem to be quite content in just being and it's an amazing thing!  I'm sure there are some given the opportunity would love to get off the streets, but there are some who couldn't function that way.  There are some it doesn't even matter to, because God made us very versatile people.  You can live any way you have to but you have to live.

Sure, you have the small few who are not nice, who might even be dangerous, but I'm just not getting a sense of desperation and danger like where I come from.  It's a different atmosphere here and maybe that's just us changing it when we show up.  Yes, that's what it must be, our changing the atmosphere every Sunday!!!!

It's not the same monster as where I come from.

It's also encouraging!

So, these young people are still in my heart and I'm smiling even now, because their easy spirits get them where they need to go and it's such a blessing to meet people like them.  They are just doing their thing.

God gets us where we are going and we don't have to be worried about it.  We don't have to be all stressed out about it, it's life, it's worth living and laughing at.  There is nothing to worry about and every moment to live in.

And that's my praise report on the streets of Montgomery Alabama people.