Important or urgent?
Iwas reminded the other day about a man I met four years ago. He was a 36-year-old man from Eagle Pass and he walked into my office on Tuesday. He had started walking days earlier and after a few rides and a few blisters later he was in deep East Texas. When we met, he was tired, hopeless (he had hoped to find some family here - it didn’t work out) homeless and hungry. We got him some food and a motel room for the night (plus a bottle of cream soda), it’s about all we could really do (it put us $68.00 over our benevolence budget). He reminded me of Raymond Babbitt, Dustin Hoffman’s character from the movie Rain Man. I shared with Louis that the best thing for him was to go back the way he came, to go back home, that we had done all we could for him. I told him enjoy the bed, enjoy the shower and enjoy the food but go back home.
