Prayer Request

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This is so amazing.  I just came back from lunch with a friend (really
shopping) and we stopped at a Wendy's to pick up something for a coworker.
There was a young girl there who was homeless and she was begging for money
for some food.  I told my friend, I wonder why she doesn't go to a homeless
shelter for women where she can be taken care of.  She replied well there
they have rules and restrictions and a lot of homeless people don't want to
submit to that.

After just having that conversation I get back to my desk and read Robert's
email.  What a confirmation!!  Yet so sad that people settle for less than
the comfort and love of the truth.
-Rachel
>
>I will illustrate what this friend is experiencing with a sort of
>parable.
>
>There once was a poor beggar who was outcast and destitute.  Winter
>was approaching and it was geting cold and rainy.  He was hungry and
>had no food.  He was walking down the street, cold and shivering and
>hungry and sad.  The owner of a local fast food restuarant told him he
>could pick through the dumpster behind the restuarant and he could
>sleep in the little shed built to hide the dumpster so it wouldn't be
>an eyesore to the customers.  The owner said all the beggar had to do
>for this was pick up the litter in the parkinglot every day and he
>could stay as long as he wanted to.  The beggar was elated with his
>good fortune!  Now at least he would have something to eat, and a
>meagar shelter to keep him out of the rain.
>
>The next building down the street from the fast foos restuarant was a
>homeless shelter where he could have gotten healthy food and a good
>bed and bath fro free.  He never went that far down the street, as he
>was so happy with what he had already found.
>
>Some people are like that with their religion.  They take the first
>thing that comes along that looks better than what they already have,
>and then look no further.
>
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