An Awakening
My husband and I have often talked about what our mission looks like. He has his men's Bible study, he is chaplain to a college football team, and various other outreach opportunities. I am often a part of the college football team experience, and I enjoy that immensely, but we have room, together, for more. Denver has a desperate and burgeoning homeless population. We have discussed helping. But how? The community and the local and state governments continue to throw money at this crisis. Is that working? Is there something else we could do, on a one on one basis, to reach this population and provide a path to a life that is less desperate? The "awakening" for me happened while listening to Father Gregory Boyle read his audiobook Tattoos on the Heart to us on a long drive to southern Illinois over Christmas 2019. My husband, William, two of our children W, 22 and M, 24, and I were headed to a small town in Southern Illinois to spend C...