This is Billy Bob and the Consortium
Let’s Have a Conversation Today
Hey, We are Topics of Discussions
Opinions Run Rampant
Hello Folks, welcome back, I am excited that you returned for more of our coffee talks. The whole Consortium is here to welcome you today. We decided that you have been walking with us long enough so that you can handle a bit of adventure. So, today we are going to introduce you to the new topics, just a little bit. We’ve been doing some thinking about this, and we want you to have a moment to think as well.
Frankie: Well, folks, I am not sure whose wise idea it was to let me go first, but here we go. Thanks for coming back to join us again. We are still struggling to find ourselves, to a popular term, but homeless, and we are in trouble. I am known as Eeyore, the glum one, and easily made upset, but I will try and be an active part of these new discussions.
Sally: Folks, I am one of the new ones out here, you will remember from our earlier conversations. I hate it out here, but there is no way for me to get back into a home and stay alive. Yes, I said that. No one understands the plight of those trying to break free of Domestic Violence. But these guys here, they are great. Come and join us for a conversation; we all may learn.
Pete: Y’all know me, I am quiet and don’t like saying too much. I am the coffee and treats guy; that is my part in the mornings. I jump in when we face a crisis; we don’t leave our own to struggle on their own. But other than that, I don’t do much, and this here talking is a challenge, but to help y’all, I will talk, only with coffee, because y’all need to learn some real truth, so please join us
Bill: Hey, I am not comfortable with any of this. The guys here know this; I am the old man of the group and prefer to stay in the shadows. I am retired military and trust no one. Life story, you will not hear it from me, and these conversations are for your education, because your world has gone tilt and you think it is normal. You like puppet shows way too much.
Johnny Boy: Man, you guys always make me do stuff I don’t want to do and tell me it is good for me, just like the parents I never had. But, anyway, it is time for us to sit down and get over our fears and educate you housed folks, if you are brave enough, we love our talks that you jump into, it tells you what we have struggled through and who we are, so come, join us
Mike: I am the quiet one, the nearly invincible one. I do not like being out where folks can see me and know what I am doing; there is just too much risk these days of landing in jail, or worse. But Pete’s and Billy’s Coffee time in the mornings, that is way worth the risk and having a real conversation, yeah, nothing better. We can’t solve your problems, but trying is fun.
Billy Bob: Well, it is me, I am kind of the coordinator and instigator of this little group of coffee drinkers and snack eaters, and we do love a great conversation, especially on chilly mornings. We see the world totally differently than you do, we have no protecting, filtering walls, just raw in your face situations. So that means I am the one pushing buttons for the conversation y’all get to read, thanks for doing that.
I have to wonder, are you the least bit curious what we, the coffee conversation group, will be doing this time around when you join us? They will be different, a little more to the heart of the matter, regarding homelessness, and the thought patterns that have allowed it to spiral out of control. So, you may need a tad bit stronger coffee when you sit down to read our conversations.
Oh, Billy, quit being so nice, just tell them the whole truth, unlike what they do for us. We want to invite you to confront some of your worst thought patterns, mindsets, thinking regarding your most intimate thinking about us, homeless folks. Hey, folks what those guys are saying is this: change can never happen outside of the willingness to talk about what needs to change. Stuff like us being reminders, obstacles, hot potatoes, simply inconvenient.
Folks, it is me, Bill, the old man of the group, and I have aged past the point of caring anymore, but for the younger ones that are ending up out here and you not understanding how and why, I want to invite you to be brave and bold and sit down with us. These darn things called mindsets are confusing, frustrating, and make you all silly headed, and even us homeless, but there has to be answers, yes?
Riposte
You say problems, obstacles, reminders, and nothing else, worth-less, but are we? Come by for a chat and find out if you stand on solid ground
Opinions, Rumors, Guilt Shame run rampant from your camp to ours, but is needed, accurate, does it help or hurt? Let’s conversate and find out
All are addicts, bums, mentally ill, lazy, unwilling to work, mindsets about fixed, but are they true? Come for coffee, let’s fight for truth, for reality
You bring your idea of reality and truth and thoughts of being and living homeless and we will bring out’s and let’s see where truth will land, if y’all dare to do so
Conclusion
Greetings, it is Billy Bob, you have already gained insight on how we would love to interact over the next few coffee mornings with you folks, I can only hope you are brace enough to join us. We have no intent of rudeness or disrespect, but we would love permission to challenge what you have been told is normal and acceptable and see if it really is.
Wars, peace, family broken and healed have all started with words and even conversations, and that is what we are seeking, these mindsets, things are crazy little creatures, just like the little foxes the bible speaks of. Wiley and slippery and dangerous if not quickly and openly dealt with, and so far, few have been.
Here is the big problems with the little things called mindsets, nobody wants to talk about where they come from and how they are formed. But they will fight you tooth and nail to protect the ones they believe in and accept. If it is a mindset of belief that they do not really care about or does not impact them, they do not care and there is no fight. This is where change has yo come forth, we have to care, why, there are hundreds dying each year because mindsets are fixed without reasons and for no good reason.
I have given the open invitation, as well as the rest of the Consortium, and our first coffee morning is in just a couple of days. We hope to see you, to hear from you, and to interact with you. Change has to start somewhere. Thanks for joining us today, have a great one, blessings.
Forgive me but let me give you something to meditate on until we meet again. It is from the bible, and it is pretty powerful,
Anos 3: 3 to 7
Do two people walk hand in hand if they aren’t going to the same place?
Does a lion roar in the forest if there is no carcass to devour?
Does a bird fall to the ground if it hasn’t been hit with a stone?
Does a trap spring shut if nothing trips it?
When the alarm goes off in the city, aren’t people alarmed?
And when disaster strikes the city, doesn’t God stand behind it?
The fact is, God, the Master, does nothing without first telling His prophets the whole story.
I know, you are wondering why I shared this, the reason is a heads up and a thinking moment for all of us. God is in the midst of this mess, both sides, not absent, not unseeing, He knows what we do, you and I, for and against resolving and increasing homelessness; so, come to coffee mornings and let’s solve it.
What Will Their Outcome Be?
You Have a Part to Play…
