Same kind of different as me


I recently read this book. It's a very touching story.. and actually true. It's about a wealthy art dealer who befriended a homeless man with the encouragement of his wife. Both the art dealer and the homeless man wrote the book together... and I tell you.. It's amazing to read both parts, but the art dealer was seriously transformed and changed through this friendship. It has caused me to sit back and evaluate some of the friendships in my own life. I have been changed by many of them, but I am also eager to start new relationships with people very different than me. There is still so much in our lives to learn. We are ever changing, growing, evolving people. One thing that stuck out to me in the most in this story is that Ron (the wealthy art dealer) at one point of their friendship realized and said that he was ashamed that he ever thought of himself as better than Denver (the homeless man). I think we can so easily get in this mind set when doing service of thinking we are great because we are helping these people. I know have definitely fallen into that trap. The thing is... These people are actually helping us. And the service we are doing is not at all because we are great... it's because He is great... Thanks be to God. I pray that I am constantly reminded of this!

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Emily said…
I really like the part where he's talking about his daughter going up to intern at Crooked Creek. He makes a comment that's something like "lots of recent college graduates feel called to suffer for the Lord in the Rockies." Good book.
May 19, 2009 at 2:42 PM
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