People, please treat everyone you meet with kindness and respect. Especially if they don’t deserve it. Ex-criminals, s***** offenders, robbers, wife beaterers, drug addicts, alcoholics, animal abusers, etc. are all used to being treated with such disrespect and namecalling that when you actually treat one nice, they nearly have a heart attack.
I brought in last night two homeless men (one was a s** offender and the other an alcoholic). I couldn’t see them suffer anymore in the freezing temps and snow. It took at least 30 minutes for their clothes to come off because they were actually frozen to their skin. I let them take showers. I fed them a nice hot dinner. I gave them some of my deceased husband’s clothes and pajamas. After grooming them up a little, they looked like handsome gentlemen. I have two guest bedrooms; I offered to let them stay until spring. When I went to hug the s** offender goodnight, he nearly jumped out of his skin in fear, he thought I was going to beat him. That made me so sad thst people have to treat others like dogs. Someone must have abused him for him to react so fearfullly.
We actually had a nice dinner and conversation and we played poker and watched tv. I always talked to them when they were homeless but I never realized just how these people need love to grow, maybe even more love than anyone else. But I think I saved two human beings lives last night. I hope I can help them both get their lives back on track, too.
The takeaway here: love people. Love people. Love people. Love people.