Can I have some change?

Many times we hear people in the street asking for change. Most times we reckon they are asking for money, of which in most instances they are. How about changing our understanding of the change being asked for.What if it's change in treatment.

In April 2013 I read an article about a police man in New York who was photographed by a tourist giving a BRAND NEW pair of winter boots and socks to a destitute man on the street, on a cold winter night. It turns out the policeman got the boots at $75 (discounted from $100 by the shopkeeper)- you read it correctly 75 US dollars; R675 using exchange rate of $1:R9.
One day at the gate called Beautiful at the temple there was a crippled beggar who saw some disciples entering the temple and 'asked for change'. He actually got CHANGE he hadn't bargained for. "Silver and gold we don't have, BUT in the name of Jesus rise up and walk." How's that for CHANGE. Many people had passed by him that day and days before, but that day brought a difference/change in his life.

This other day while in Cape Town in a surburb called Claremont while waiting for a train to Mowbray when I met a man who stays in the street who I started chatting to. He opened up about his past, his family, why he chose to leave the house he was sharing with siblings-which belonged to their parents etc. It was a lengthy and detailed conversation and at the end he said, "thank you for listening." That was the 'change' he had needed that day.

*Give people some CHANGE*

Love God, Love people

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