Homeless guy in a Jesus T-shirt....lunch is on me

Doing some reading of blogs today. Haven't taken the time to catch up on others blogs in months and feeling behind. Wanted to highlight this one by one of my dear friends. http://dcbony.blogspot.com/2009/03/what-should-church-be-doing.html
Thank you Dave, and Don for reminding me of what I should be doing. I needed to hear those words. I needed to be reminded that there is much work that I have been called to do. That the church has been called to do.

I want to apologize to the guy in the Jesus shirt that ran into me the other day at the bus stop. He offered his name, and I am ashamed to say that I didn't catch it. Along with his name he asked if I could spare some money as he was hungry and homeless and trying to get something to eat at the hospital. I was impatient and wondering where the bus was and wasn't in the mood to help this man. I too was hungry, I too was in need. So, in my selfishness I brushed him off as if he were an annoying fly that just won't leave you alone.

Homeless guy in the Jesus shirt I am sorry. Deeply sorry.

As soon as you road off on your bike, the bus came and I thought about inviting you over for lunch. It wouldn't have been much, but it would have been offered out of love.

Your shirt convicted me. I trust in that man who you were wearing. But I didn't act like him when you asked me for help. I acted like it wasn't my problem. But it was. Right at that moment you were talking to me. Human to human. I didn't have any money to spare. But I did have some food if you were willing to follow me a few miles to where I was staying. Food that just a few days earlier were purchased on my behalf. How selfish of me to benefit from someones generosity and not share it with others who are in need.

So next time I run into you, homeless guy in a Jesus T-shirt, lunch is on me.