Ever since I started parking off Cone st, 3 blocks from my place, I pass a guy sleeping on the steps of a dentist office. I said to Anna one time "I wish I could see him awake sometime so I could get to know him." A couple of nights later on a rainy night when I walked by he called out to me "Why are you walking in the rain?" It startled me because I assumed he was asleep as usual. I'm going home I told him. I introduced myself and a couple of days later on Christmas day I took him some socks, gloves and food. That was the bginning of a beautiful friendship. Since that night I have often stopped and talked with him about many things. He has a daughter my age and a son with AIDS. He was married once, divorced and now in love with a woman who is blind from a stroke. He has counseled me with very Godly advice on issues I'm dealing with and said he's going to buy me mace because he worries about me walking the streets at night. He waits up now to hear me walk by and said if anything ever happened, he'd tell the police what I was wearing and when he saw me last. When I told him about my car being broken into he said he would try to find MY gps. How he plans to do this I had no idea but he said he knows a guy who breaks into cars, he'd ask him. Haha! Just last night we were talking and he said "It's raining again tonight just like the night we met. I don't know why I hollered out to you that first night but I'm glad I did." Kevin has become one of my very dear friends. We laugh together and sit in silence when words would be too cheap to express the situation. Sometimes I wonder when Jesus said "Whatever you have done unto the least of these you have done unto me" means that Kevin is an angel, not a real person afterall.
