We talked about what or who can give a homeless person hope. Is it having somewhere to sleep at night out of the cold? Is it the caring volunteers at the soup kitchen? Is it government agencies who have homelessness & poverty initiatives? Is it the person who greets and smiles at a homeless person, says hello, and asks, "What is your name"?
We read some excerpts from Frank O'Dea's book, When All You Have is Hope (Viking Canada, 2007). What motivated Frank to walk away from skid row and change his life?
O'Dea (2007) wrote, "That was me, the guy begging money for a bottle of wine and a fifty-cent bed in a flophouse. I was thirty years away from being named an Officer of the Order of Canada, twenty years away from marriage and fatherhood, ten years away from earning my first million dollars, and a week away from deciding that I must change or die."
We read some excerpts from Frank O'Dea's book, When All You Have is Hope (Viking Canada, 2007). What motivated Frank to walk away from skid row and change his life?
O'Dea (2007) wrote, "That was me, the guy begging money for a bottle of wine and a fifty-cent bed in a flophouse. I was thirty years away from being named an Officer of the Order of Canada, twenty years away from marriage and fatherhood, ten years away from earning my first million dollars, and a week away from deciding that I must change or die."
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