Musings from Union Station
May 31, 2009
Smell of urine. Filth. Trash. Homelessness. Poverty.
Oh, the glories of Los Angeles
I’m sitting in Union station watching birds fly through &land on a perch alongside me. Its a slow day here, there’s room to sit and intently listen, away from the usual and expected bussel of the place. At 14:30 I go to see an inmate at the Twin Towers Correctional Facility. I’ve never met the man, all I know is he was homeless and I saw him one day and did nothing. I was so heart broken that I did nothing that my brother John went in my place to meet the man on the side of the road. He doesn’t know either of us, really.. All I kno is if he doesn’t have anyone to help him or visit him on the streets he sure as heck doesn’t have anyone visiting him while in jail.
After waiting 2 hrs in line, it was finally our turn. I turned to John and told him I felt like a kid at Disneyland, he responded with “yeah, and is this the ride?”. …I thought about it- we were (still are) in for the ride of our lives..
Earlier, while waiting I was singing Our God Is An Awesome God, john began to laugh vibrantly. “If someone would have told us two years ago that we’d be going to visit a homeless person we don’t know, in a jail, while worshipping and praying to God as we wait, we would have told them they were insane”
Fact: We never imagined this. I guess its true that falling in love makes you crazy- imagine what its like to be madly romanced by the Creator of the universe. Its quite the trip.
I’m watching people take pictures of Union Station. I wonder if they’d want to take pictures of the filth in the alleyways immediately next to it? Or is that not picturesque enough for them?
I will meet a man who may affect my life in a radical way in an hour and I have no idea what is in store for John and I out here. All I know is my heart breaks for the lost, forgotten, hopeless, and homeless…
Oh Lord, what is it that you are doing here today? My Lord what would you have me do?
