by Jonathan Schmidt

Along side of all the beauty of Vancouver, and the excitement around the Games, I have also seen many things that have broken my heart. I will only write about one example. The night before last a old women in a wheelchair approached me on the street. Her legs were so small and hung limp from years of being paralyze. She asked me for some change. I didn’t have any change at all. I offered to buy her food… she said “no… I want money for a place to stay tonight.” I was tired and just wanted to go home. I’m ashamed to say I excused myself and did just that… I went home. I didn’t know what to do? I realized on the train, a few minutes latter, that I could have gone with her, possibly had a good conversation, and paid for a place for her to stay? It made me so sad, and I felt helpless, staring into her wrinkly desperate face… I wanted to know what Jesus would have done?

Please be praying for us to know what to do to show people God that loves them, and wants people to come back to Him