I have just finished reading The Same Kind of Different As Me by Ron Hall and Denver Moore. There are some amazing lessons to be learned from this book. It is the story of a homeless man and an upscale art dealer and the difference they made in each others lives.
They were brought together by the faith of the art dealers wife and her faithfulness to the voice of God.
After she lost her battle with cancer, the homeless man (Denver Moore) is talking about how he was scared to get close to people, because everyone he had ever cared about had died. He continues on to say that he was glad that he had broken his own rule and let her be part of his life and how glad that he was the she had stood up to him when he tried to push her away. He then talked about the most important lesson that he thought she had taught him. "Every man should have the courage to stand up and face the enemy, cause ever person that looks like a enemy on the outside ain't necessarily one on the inside. We all has more in common than we think. You stood up with courage and faced me when I was dangerous, and it changed my life. You loved me for who I was on the inside, the person God meant for me to be, the one that had just gotten lost for a while on some ugly roads in life."
What are the ugly roads in life that we travel down that keep us from being the people God wants us to be? What enemies must we find the courage to face in order to change the lives of others?
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I read that book too! It was just incredible and really changed the way I look at people. Since I work with kids, it sort of served as a reminder to me that I should work even harder to love the ones that are hard to love.
Here's a thought that is related to what the book talks about also - what if you are the only person who will pray for a particular someone else that day? What if you're the only one noticed that someone you work with needs help and decides to do something about it? What if you're the only person who is steady or is even civil to this person all day long? One act of kindness could change a person's life and I knew that, but this book shows that sometimes you've got to show kindness time after time again before you see any difference it can make. And sometime we don't get know that what we do changes anything because we don't see what happens as a result of an act of kindness. All of these seem like perfect reasons to show what Christ wants us to show all the time - love.
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