By the time you read this, the weather will be colder outside, and the temperatures will remind us how fast our need for a coat changes with the wind and the sunrise of a new day. Recently, I remember going to the streets on a cold day, and I could see flames coming from a campfire across the creek. I called my homeless friends across the way, and someone called me from the other side of the embankment. “Hey, Lady! Who are you looking for?”
Standing by the hatch of my SUV car, I answered the shadow. “It’s freezing out here. I have some blankets.”
Not long after that, several faces joined me, new friends and old, and they retrieved blankets as we engaged in conversation. Their gratefulness danced like a flicker of a fire with hope as they rushed back to their camps.
