People Trying To Get Back Up On Their Feet

And the men and women on the street are making an impact on the kids as well. “I learned that they’re not all drunks, alcoholics [and] criminals -- that they’re just people trying to get back up on their feet,” says Luke.

That was a line coming from a 14-year old on what he has learned so far from feeding the homeless people living on the streets of San Diego County for 2 years - every Sunday.  Here's a link to the article

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/the-upbeat/1-dad-inspired-teenage-kids-33-000-burritos-151030526.html?vp=1

And aren't we all trying to get back up on our feet?  We, all, at some point in our lives, have fallen.  Sometimes even fallen so hard and so low that it sometime seemed we're too far out of reach to be saved.  So why are we still here struggling to survive in this world?  Why haven't we given up?  Because we have hope.  At our every turn, no matter where our turns - right or wrong - have taken us in our life, our Lord's love for us is so great and wide that if we just take the time to look, even if it's just from our peripheral point of view, we see it.  That's if we look sideways.  But even if the shame that we, ourselves, have invited in our lives from wrong decisions and indecisions... even if that shame has given us the worst kind of stiff neck that we can't muster up the confidence to look around for fear that we'd catch people's attention.  And we can only look up and down.  No height is too high and no depth too deep for God's love and His healing and restoring power.

We just need to turn to Him.  Whichever direction is comfortable for us right  now - up or down, left or right.  We are assured that our great and awesome Lord is there - is always there - waiting with His arms wide open.