“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view…Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
—Harper Lee Several years ago, I had a conversation with a homeless man in NYC. He started by asking me a few questions: “Reverend, have you ever been out in the street for 3 weeks in the winter when the temperature gets in the teens? Have you ever gone 3 weeks without showering? Have you ever had on 4 pairs of socks, but your feet are still frozen? Have you ever had anyone offer you a cold bottle of water at 1 am in the morning on a freezing night and tell you to “stay warm”? That is hard for me, but the hardest thing is that I am no longer treated like a human being. Just a few years ago, I was working finance in this town, and now I feel like a piece of garbage on the street that most people want to avoid…
