VENDOR WRITING
Continue in Love BY JOHN H., CONTRIBUTOR VENDOR Taking a look at America, the most important thing I see it can use a lot more of is love. I ask myself many times, what has happened? I was speaking with my third to the oldest sister and she mentioned me being homeless, which at a point, I was homeless 45 years ago when I stayed right in the same town with her and the rest of the family. Ya see, selling this paper, whether you are homeless or formerly homeless you’re eligible, that she didn’t know. I’d lost my phone and one of my customers contacted my youngest sister because I couldn’t Google and re-
trieve my past number on a new phone. So when she contacted my sister she mentioned homelessness. The next morning, I got a call from my oldest sister, and homelessness was the first thing she mentioned before she even said hello. I know where this conversation was headed so I told her I couldn’t talk, simply because of my love and respect I had for her, knowing there were things about that subject with her that should have been discussed a long long time ago. Especially about what they (my Jehovah Witness family) call Love. The God I serve loves un-
der all circumstances. Even if you’re sinful, God still loves you. Although I was a Jehovah Witness, does it mean I should’ve been loved as the rest of my family? I guess they misinterpreted some scripture different and came to the wrong conclusion, so I put the conversation off till another date. It’s just with her having chronic heart problems and sick most of the time, I wanted to be very careful how I explain to her how the Contributor works, and how she has acted toward her long lost little brother in the past. Because if the God you serve loves the way you love, I don’t want no part of
him. Not just my sister, but many that pass me by. We must let love continue no matter of race, creed, color, circumstance or whatever the case may be. Many Americans love less simply because a person may seem not to be at the potential that he or she should be. Thing of it is, you never know what a person’s going through. Some stronger than others. I’m saying this because it’s a wakeup call for me. In my teenage years, I used to act the same way. It was not until God came into my heart that I changed. So who am I to condemn. I love each and every one that steps
foot on this earth. And that love will continue no matter what the circumstance might be. Now speaking of potential. It’s not that we don’t have potential, it’s we see things we never wanna be. My family and I had a conversation and I said to them, I have made double in finance than you. God will do that for me, but yet I don’t wanna be like you. Do the thing you do or act the way you act. Within 60 days, God made that dream come true. Now I live the way that’s pleasing to him and in Love. Money or Wealth can never make me act the way some do.
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