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Homeless at Christmas
Posted: December 21, 2008
A familiar scenario challenges our bias…
In need of shelter, food and clothes
a homeless couple nearly froze
while wandering from door to door.
They wondered if God cared.
Their plight was caused by government
that taxed them poor and stole their rent.
Each night they faced the humbling task
of looking for a bed.
Do you recognize them?
Do you know their names?
A baby fills the woman's womb.
She knows delivery will be soon.
But what she doesn't know is where
her labor will conclude.
Both she and her young husband find
the world is prejudice and blind
to those in need whose lot in life
is not what meets the eye.
And yet not everyone's the same.
Unwilling to attribute shame
to these whose need can't be denied,
an unnamed man responds.
When posed the Starbucks' question "Room?"
he sees two faces framed by gloom
and makes the effort to make space
before the two are three.
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Greg Asimakoupoulos (pronounced AWESOME-uh-COPE-uh-less) is an ordained minister, published author and chaplain to a retirement community in the Pacfic Northwest. Greg maintains a blog called Rhymes and Reasons, which he graciously provides to SeniorLifestyle.Greg's writings have now been assembled in book form. See the SeniorLifestyle Store. • E-mail the author (moc.loa@veRemosewA*) • Author's website (personal or primary**)
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Posted: December 21, 2008
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