John

I will call him John. He came to the shelter after losing his abode in a nearby city. His lived with his daughter until a week ago when she was evicted for non payment of rent. The daughter went to live with her mother, John's ex-wife. John had no place to go, no friend, no family or church to talk to.

John spent the rest of the days and night numbering 10 under a bridge as homeless. That is when a passerby saw him and told him about the Salvation Army shelter. He came and found a bed.

John is a truck driver but in the last fw weeks has not been able to work because his left arm is in much pain at the shoulder joint.

I sat down to see him in the evening of day two in the shelter. As he spoke John broke down and wept like a child. "I have sunk so low, I never thought anything like this could happen to me." He said between th sobs.
"I am not able to take care of myself. My family is not there for me. When I tell them my situation they tell me thy understand but are not able to consider taking me in. I can not work becaus my arm is in pain. If I go out looking for work I am told I can't be hired because I am not able to lift more that 5 lbs."
Then John told me what happened last night.
"I could not sleep. I had these loud noises in my head. They told me to end it. Get a gun. Find a rope. But I told myself that was not the way. I told myself I will make it. I knelt down by my bed and prayed to God. I asked God to help me, to bless me this day. I prayed that He would take me out of the place where I am."
I asked him how his day went.
He repeated what he already told me, that his day was very blessed indeed. This coming Sunday he would go to the Methodist Church close by. He told me he wants to renew his life in the LORD. I told him that was the way.
I spent time praying with John. He wants a large print Bible. He is not able to read out of small print because his sight is not very good.
As I prayed with John I felt the awesomeness of the occasion. He was determined to see God. H is determined to change the course of his life.

The next day John would go and find something to do.