how i failed…

two weeks ago I was in the bookstore poking around.

(side note. i love books.)

i was there by the magazines.

to my left was a man that looked as if the weight of the world had crushed him.

he looked weary with years. kind of like an old blues singer.

his clothes were dirty. and he was just sitting there on the bench, alone, staring off into space.

the verse came to mind “whatever you do to the least of these, you do to me” or something like that.

i thought i was going crazy. i looked at him and when he looked back, i looked away.

it was almost like God was telling me to go talk to him.

but I didn’t.

and I left.

now weeks later, it still bothers me. and that verse comes to haunt me in my thoughts daily now.

~ by adamintheocean on September 25, 2008.