Good morning. Good afternoon and good evening everybody. It's your girl sanga McQueen with your mind your body your choice
All right, you know
Something happened today, and I just thought I would take a really quick break in and come and tell you about it because that's what I do sometimes
About three months ago I was out for a run and I passed this young man and I might have
Spoke about this before I can't remember but I probably told you guys this story before
But anyway, there was a young man. He was walking towards me, you know as I was running and
He you know how you nod your head at somebody and said good morning
Good morning, ma'am, and I said good morning and he smiled and kept walking
I kept walking and didn't ask for anything
Nothing so a couple of days later. I seen the same young man again with the same clothes on and
Right then I knew he was homeless
Didn't understand it the first time, but I knew he was homeless this time and once again
He smiled at me and said good morning. I said good morning and I
Kept running, but then I kicked myself because I had a bottle of water and it was so hot
I had an extra I always carry two depending on how many miles I'm doing this particular day
I had two bottles so that meant I was doing at least 10 miles so I
Kicked myself for not offering him a bottle of water and I thought you know what even if I'm only doing
four to six miles. I'm gonna carry an extra bottle of water for him and
I
Did see him again one day and went to offer him the water, but I didn't catch him so
Long story short today. I took the grandkids dropped him off at camp
Went to the store did a few things and I'm driving home
And I see this young man walking down the sidewalk now the area I live in you don't see many homeless people
I've probably seen two
The entire time and I mean my neighborhood
I've probably seen two outside of the gates on the sidewalk or something
so I
Went through the the gate to come home and
Everything in me was telling me turn around
You are starting a new business
You are helping the homeless you are helping the homeless get on their feet
Get jobs. You're setting them up. You're housing them
You know the ones that don't have drug issues or mental health issues. Let me throw that out there trying to get them
Reacclimate it back into society back on their own feet. So I thought you know what this is a perfect opportunity
He's a sweet guy. He seems to be he seems to be he's a young guy. He's probably
between 20 and
26
So let me turn around so I go back out the gate. I drive down the sidewalk and I pass him and pull in so I can turn on my
my hazard lights I
pull in and
I wait a couple of minutes before I get out of my car until he gets closer to me and
I finally get out of my car and I go to speak to him and he's got his hands
I
Used to work in special ed and there's something some of the kids would do where their hands would be moving
Almost like
You are typing, but you're typing
Facing hand-to-hand. I hope that makes sense. Just you're wiggling each finger
Mostly the middle three fingers and your hands are facing each other. He was doing that
And he had his hands up close to his face and back down and close to his face and back down
and I said excuse me and
He
started talking gibberish and I said excuse me
The you know, I want to ask you a question. I want to give you something too. I had some fruit
I had just bought in my car and some water and stuff and
and he started talking gibberish kept talking gibberish and he walked around me and
He was so dirty and I just wanted to cry because
Just a few months ago y'all
He was in my opinion. I mean, I didn't speak to him long, but good morning, ma'am
You know, the hands weren't going but living out in these elements
Living out in the elements. God only knows what you have to face and praise the Lord. I
Don't know what that's like. I
Don't know what it's like to sleep outside and and have to worry about
bugs and insects and animals dogs and
people I
Don't have to worry about the sun being so hot and I don't have water
that I'm just praying that I don't have a heat stroke or die of starvation or
Dehydration, I don't know what it's like to sit outside
And he caught in one of these Florida rainstorms where it rains like crazy and it floods
Within an hour, but then two hours later. It's all dried up. So I just got soaking wet
I'm trying to get on higher ground just for now the Sun to be beaming on me at 96
degrees, I
Don't know what any of that's like
But to see the effects of a young man who a few months ago spoke to me
to now speaking gibberish and
Waving his fingers around in his face as he walks and talks to himself was absolutely heartbreaking to me
My friend Paula shared a video I did well over a decade ago that I honestly didn't remember till she
posted it and I didn't even look at it. I never look at my
Videos when I was on TV. I never looked at any of the shows I was on when I was on radio shows
I never listened to any of the
the
What are they called not podcasts, but the broadcast the broadcast and
When I would go do speaking in bait gaugements. I never went back and looked at the videos if they posted them
But something told me to post this look at this one and I did and one of the last things I said is
We always wonder why people don't do something about situations
Why don't people do things about the homeless or or?
Mothers who are hitting their kids or kids who are trying to avoid games or whatever the situation is and
Then at the end of that I said why don't I do something?
I'm trying y'all. I'm trying my company is
encompassed to help other people and this is a true sign to me that
Had I not thought of this several months ago and talked to him then maybe I could have helped him
But I can't live on my maybes, you know, I can't live on what could have
That didn't happen. All I know is that
Every day I'm working at trying to make this a better world for the few people I touch. What are you doing?
What are you doing if you were one of those people who sit back on social media all day and
Comment on other people's lives
That's all you do you're not doing your part
Even if you're creating your own social media and you're bringing hope and positivity and love and and
commitment and and God to people you might be doing your part
Maybe that's your part
But there are so many nasty mean negative
comments floating around on social media and guess what y'all
They get way more likes
Than the kind loving god driven ones
Unless your name's Joyce Myers
Jolosting TD jakes
All that love and kindness can fall to the side
You can post a picture
Test me if you don't believe me. I've got like maybe four or five hundred friends on Facebook
But you could post the picture and and maybe a fourth
Eighth of your friends will like it. That's a good number of people no matter how many friends you have
You have a hundred friends 20 of them like it. That's good. That's good. That's a hundred twenty percent
Right, so you post something else now post something negative. Did you all see usher and kiki Palmer?
You're gonna get all kinds of comments
Now post something about God or post something positive or a meme about
The the light shining you might get a couple of hearts
A couple of hugs
Thumbs up, but it's not gonna compare to that post you posted about usher and kiki Palmer or
Your pictures it's just like that. I know it's like that
But
Each one can teach one
So just
Reach back and do your part. Don't tell me if you've listened if you're listening to my podcast
I'm gonna assume you're grown
I can't see too many 12 year olds wanting to hear this podcast
But if you're listening to this you're grown up
You've been through something. I don't care how minute you think it is or how major you think it is you've been through something
When you see somebody else going through something act like you know
It doesn't even have to be the same scenario act like you know
What it's like to be hungry act like you know
What it's like to be hurting
Act like you know what it's like to be homeless
Because by the grace of God you were one paycheck away from being there in all those scenarios
Act like you know what it's like when your friend loses a child to lose a child
Have real compassion
Don't expect them to get over it in a month or two months and swear you would have you don't know
By the grace of God, you'll never find out
Because if I lost one of mine, I'd never be right again
I would just hope that I would never lose a child
I would just hope God keeps the same people in my circle that are there now to love on me
To make me smile to bring joy to my life because I cannot imagine
Carrying a child and then losing them. I can't imagine it so
You guys I don't care what your situation
I don't care if if you were like me and you got caught shoplifting one time
If you were homeless homeless, you didn't have anywhere to go but you went from the hospital to
Somebody bought you a ticket to go somewhere else
It doesn't matter
It doesn't matter if
You did something
And it has nothing to do with somebody else's situation act like you know what it's like to be in a situation
Act like you know what it's like to be in a valley
Act like you know what it's like to have to call on Jesus
With your whole heart with tears flowing down your face
Because you're in such a desert
You don't know what tomorrow's gonna be like and he pulls you out
Don't look at the next person and frown
Or talk about them or feel like you're so much better than them
Because once again
But for the grace of God
All right you guys I I was a little sad about the guy but all it did was I've already got a fire under me
somebody just threw some
Gasoline on it. So
My gasoline draws and I we're gonna keep this pushing out
Listen, I'm also looking for volunteers. I'm if you are in the state of Florida
If you are in the state of Florida if you are in the state of Florida, I don't care where in Florida
You could probably help but after we get this up and going it'll probably be a year or so
Here I come Georgia
And then here I come Missouri. I got this
All right, you guys have a great day on purpose
I gotta get back to my lesson