WWJG

WHERE WOULD JESUS GO
Where do you think Jesus would go if he were to visit your town?

I went to Sarcan to today to do the recycling thing. It was the first time I had been there when it was packed full of people. We live four blocks from Sarcan. I packed up the van with all the cardboard, tin cans, milk cartons and of course all the pop bottles and tins, and headed out, around 12:30. I thought I would stop at Sarcan first, but you could hardly get in the door there were so many people. So I went over to the other place and got rid of all the cardboard and such and came back only to find it was still just a busy. I thought I should just go home a come another day. Then I thought I would just stand in line and wait.

It was interesting to me how many different nationalities of people were there. Native, Oriental, Black and White. Here we all were in the same noisy, smelly, place.
Some folks were from the rich class but most were poor. Young and old. People looking to cash in there bottles for a variety of reasons.
One little old lady with an eye missing kept asking people if she could have their bottles so she could get money to buy liquor. She kept saying she was dry.

The Man and his son ahead of me, whom I had seen walking as I drove to recycle, had two full shopping carts with garbage bags hanging from every corner, said he could not give his bottles to her because he was saving to fix his truck. He was short of stature and thin and as I watched him unload his bottles I noticed he was disabled a bit. He did not seem to have the use of both hands and he walk with a limp like one who may have have polloi at one time. You could tell by his look he had had a hard life, but there was still a softness about him as he talked with his son and those around him.

From the time I arrived at Sarcan and left, a whole hour had past. It was not until I stood next in line to unload my bottles, that I began to think this would be one place Jesus would come to. A place were some people were looking for a way to buy the next fix or meal or cash to fix a truck or a varieties of other reasons.
I am glad I decided to stand in line a wait. It is in waiting that we learn the most and grow. In this world of instant this and that it is hard for us to wait watch and learn. God love people so much.