What do you do when you see a group of homeless men sleeping by a building, one in which doesn't have a blanket? As I was walking outside from our flat, I happened to come upon a situation like this. My heart was breaking cause it was cold and raining and the one man was just laying on top of a cardboard box. Normally when I see someone who is homeless, asking for money, I tend to say "sorry, I don't have any change on me" and keep walking, not thinking twice. But somehow, seeing people sleeping on the streets tend to get my attention. What I did was turn around and went back into the flat to ask the group what they thought about the situation. The logical thing is to just give the man a blanket, but the problem was that the blankets that we had didn't belong to us, they belonged to JPUSA (Jesus People USA). After a short discussion, we decided that we would take a blanket out to the man, then all chip in the buy JPUSA another blanket. When we went out to give the man the blanket we said was "Sir, you look cold tonight" and covered him up with the blanket. The man did not respond so we just walked away. This man may have been passed out when we put the blanket on him, but at least he would wake up with it wrapped around him. Maybe he even thought "how did this get here." I only wish I was there to tell him that it was God's love and mercy that put that blanket around him last night.

The next night I was walking home from the train and was exhausted from walking around downtown all evening at a Latin music fest. When I got to the cornor of the alley way I saw the same man we had given the blanket to. He had nothing with him but a backpack and the blanket. He was using the blanket like a sleeping bag, so not only did he have something to cover up with, but he had something to put between him and the cement. I felt God in that moment. I felt amazing knowing that I followed God's call to help someone. Who would have known that a ragged old blanket could do so much?!

Hey everyone! So I leave tomorrow for Chicago! My family is driving me down so pray for a safe trip. I will be in Chicago for 1 month then off to Australia I go. I will be returning in July of 2010 so I will keep you posted on what's going on down under! Meanwhile, don't be shy, I'd love to hear from everyone while I'm away so I'm not completely excommunicated from your lives!