Jesus

[soldier4christ]

I know Jesus is the only person who will never disappoint me
the only person who will love me NO MATTER what
the only friend who wants to spend as much time with me as i do with him(even more)
I need to stop putting so much faith in "friends"
Jesus is the only savior

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[soldier4christ]

While up at the Dream Center my heart broke. I was distraught for all of these people I saw and felt their pain, their anguish, their sorrow. We saw people smoking crackpipes, shooting up, some of us saw prostitutes being abused by their pimps, we saw teenagers living on the streets, runaways who had nothing. While talking to some of these people, I was blown away by the realization that all they wanted was love, somone to talk to, a friend. So ofen we neglect the less fortunate, assuming that everything that has happened to them is their own fault and justify the clearness of our consciences by assuring ourselves that they just want money for drugs or alcohol. I used to think this way too. One of the days at the Dream Center, a group of about 8 of us helped with the ministry called "Metro-Kidz" which is a sidewalk sunday school where they drive out big trucks with pull-down stages and speakers to really ghetto areas of Los Angeles like South Central, Watts, etc. to perform short bible lessons and hang out with the kids. It was amazing to see all these kids, most of them between 5 and 10 years old, their faces lit up and smiles on their faces. They want nothing more than to be shown love, to be played with, cared about. It was more than just playing soccer with them, or giving them piggy-back rides, it was about caring enough about them to spend our time doing these things. They wanted to be hugged, talked to like they mattered. The adults of the area were no different. Have you ever taken the time to listen to someone who was living on the streets, who was alone? Most of the time they could talk for hours if you let them. If you had, you would discover that most of the time they just want someone to listen to them, someone to tell their story to, to love them. When you sit down with them, whether it be under a bridge, on a curb, inside of a McDonald's, you impact them a lot more than you think. A lot of these people have no family, no friends, so when someone sits down with them and talks to them like they actually exist and matter, its a HUGE deal to them. The little things we do affect people a lot more than we think.