Dude, Share The Food!

A friend of mine recently started a blog called "Dude, Share The Food!" He and some others go out into the city and give out food and other things. Some churches do this once a year, but from what I can see, these guys do this WEEKLY! Below is a recent post from this blog:

"to finish what i started to say friday, the “couple of people” i was talking about were on their way to atlanta to stay overnight with their newfound homeless friends. Rick and Jared slept outside, in a parking lot friday night! how cool is that??!! (i say “slept”, but i don’t think they slept very much). thanks, you two, for your heart to help, get to know people, listen to ‘em, and learn more of their true, on-the-street, situations! i’m sure you’ll have some things to tell us and teach us.

but, that’s just crazy!! who chooses to sleep on the streets! i’ve always thought that i’d like to do that, but, i’m always just too busy, or, as it turns out, just too chicken! someday i’ll do it. pray for me to get more radical like that.

so, we met them at Hurt park, and served them some chili! they tried to help, but i said “no, we’re going to serve you!”

so, the next day at church, rick was telling me about it, then i was talking to mike, then david c. came up to me - “did you read the paper?”, “no”, “they found 4 homeless people dead in different parts of atlanta yesterday morning, probably from exposure!” NOOOO!!!!

seconds later, ross hands me a newspaper article. i said “this is probably what david just told me.” sure enough. i let rick read it, he let some of the people he brought read it. some cried. i was too stunned to cry. how can this happen in such a wealthy country..!!??"

Well, I don't know about you, but this really hit me hard! I look at my own life and realize just how fortunate I am. I have food to eat (most nights), I have water, I have freakin CABLE--so I can see all the spiritually dead and poor folks on the news.

What if we did stretch ourselves and our faith like these two men did that slept under the stars with homeless dudes? I got fired up when I heard they did this, and I looked at my wife and started talking about how I wanted to go do that, yeah....she didn't like that idea. (Do you blame her?)

It's a dangerous world out there. But we should TRUST God to take care of us, and we should be concerned with "... the least of these..." (Matthew 25:40)

CHECK OUT THAT BLOG AND THINK ABOUT WHAT YOU ARE WILLING TO DO!

Dude, Share The Food!