Therefor but the grace of God go I... I just feel so guilty some times when i see bums... I mean I know once you hit bottom is hard to get back up... if I could help I would..... if you want to hear a long story read on.....
About 7 years ago before my grandmother died, we needed some one to paint our house, her house, her rental, and my dads 3 rentals.... my dad being cheap like he is went down to home depot and got a crew of 3 Mexicans and 2 white guys... the next day the only guys to come back to do the rest of the work was a Guy named billy... a really nice guy.... we find out her was once a professional painter and had a wife die recently, as well as his mother was hospitalized and died a few years back.... basically with out going into details... his brother took his mothers estate and dumped the bills on Billy, and his wife's family screwed him out of a lot of stuff, and once again dumped most of her medical bills on him... he lost his job b/c he worked for his brother in law.. who now had no reason to keep him around.... so he moved to the streets after he lost his house his car and most of his other possessions.... So.. upon finding all this out my father kept him employed on his payroll for about a month as well as giving him a FREE place to live (at my grandmothers in the spare guest house)... having him do odd jobs, and handy-work to fix the guest house up nice.... in this time we also found out he was a raging alcoholic... but he wanted to stop be never had any help...about 2 weeks later, my dad talked to him for 6 hours, my dad and our pastor then talked to him.. the guy accepted Jesus into his life and really was starting to ROCK on the road to recovery.. he'd now been sober for about a week..... so we figured the next step would be a rehab program... soo we took him down to the Salvation army After much persistence and nagging.... and you know what? the SALVATION ARMY... the ****ing bell ringers that PREACH about helping people like this get off the street.... TURNED HIM DOWN....
you know why? b/c He was illiterate... a total LOAD IMO....
Ever since then I have seen homeless in a TOTALY different light... some times its not that they Don't want to get off the streets... some times its they CANT get off the streets...