This is Billy Bob and the Consortium
Let’s Have a Conversation Today
Guess What, Miracles Still Happen
Good morning, y’all, hope you are ready for coffee and treats and stories this morning! Okay Pete, do you need a re-adjustment or something? No way, it is a great day, and we are all so blessed on this day, no adjustments needed friends. Coffee, food, treats for all this morning as story time starts.
See the tougher the state and the counties get with us and the more we have to hide, the more a few are willing to cross the lines and defy the rules and regulations. First, give me coffee, please, secondly, English please on the sentence you just spewed, please. What I was saying Frankie is this, when the law and rules land hard, our unknown friends come to the rescue. I like to call them the line crossers and the rule defiers, for good and out of kindness.
But, Pete, can’t they get in some serious trouble if they are found out, helping us that is? Of course, they can, but they handle themselves in a way that makes it hard for others to know exactly what they are up to. Pete, you seem to know a lot of people and so many of them are good people, I mean look at this bounty of food this morning, and coffee ain’t the normal junk coffee we are often stuck with. Johnny Boy, more people than you can realize do not agree with the divide, homeless and non-homeless.
Pete, if there are more on this side of that great divide, why are there not more changes and why are we still struggling so? Johnny, the people who are on this side with us, helping us, working to protect us, are not the ones in power, they are the little guys, the non-rich, and the ones who don’t always play by the rules. Besides, guys, homelessness is not going anywhere for a while, so I am glad to have the line-crosses out here with us, right?
Okay, today’s coffee chat, the line crossers and rule breakers, for the greater good of other’s is it right or not so right? I mean should they do what they do so well, or should they not and simply obey the rules? What say you all this morning? Well, I mean rules have their place, but they use the rules against us, so why not allow the right rule-breakers to help us?
I mean when they break the rules for the right reason, we don’t have empty bellies or dry throats, right? Barb, you are to quiet, or are you enjoying the food this morning? Food always is good, and my opinion, who cares about the rules, the lines, cross them, blow them up, if they are helpers, then let them help us, no one else will.
I mean how many times have we gone by that gas station, that small shop, that diner at the right time, and oh, yeah, yes, there is ‘thrown away,’ sitting there, not quite thrown away, but they nearly obeyed the rules, but left it for us, so we are not quite so hungry that night? We all have said a very quiet thank you as we lifted that food into our hands and quietly left the area and found friends in need and eaten well before tucking in for the night.
There was a time in this nation when helping a neighbor, a friend, a church member, or a school pal, was all the normal, and homelessness was present but not the current social ill that it is today, and what has changed? Pete, one of the greatest problems with this world today is the modern invention of isolation and comfort, when we got comfortable we lost our heart of compassion. Why do you say that, Barb? Because in comfort we forget, but for the very grace of God, there go I! I guess why we have the line crossers and the rule breakers who want to help us in our struggles.
Okay, game time! Role Reversal! Billy Bob, you are going first. You are employed, not making much money, but you have a small apartment, off the streets, what is the ideas you would have to help those left behind?
Okay, Mr. Pete, I am employed, pinching pennies and counting dollars, what would I do, but my food and other items with the thoughts in mind of getting back to the streets so I can help those that I was living with until they make it off the streets. I would rather be a little hungry than ignore the streets.
Barb, what about you, my friend?
Pete, I would have a very hard time adjusting to all of that, but if I did, I would be out here so often people would think I did not have a home at all. I have been shaped by the streets, and the streets will be with me even if I get a home, they are not to be forgotten
Wow, Barb, the non-street life would be that hard for you? But still a line crosser, that is what I expected of you. Okay Johnny Boy, what about you?
Pee, an employee I would struggle with, I have never known a steady, stable work life or school or family, so all that will have to be learned, but it is something I want to learn. But these here streets they have my heart and if I ever got off these streets, I am coming back until every one of you is off them, that is for sure
Johnny Boy, I am sorry, and I truly hope you get a home, job, and all of that one day. I also hope the line crossers and rule breakers keep helping you until that day comes, food is good. Now Frankie, your turn my friend
I don’t like games, they are silly, but this is one that I think I like, the line crossers should be getting heroes’ welcomes and awards and honors and all of that, they help us stay alive and help us not collapse and cave and allow us to move so we can stay out of jail and all that mess, they are awesome. If I ever get to a spot where I can do this, I will for sure without a second thought
Everybody here folks, has spoken and has given their thoughts, which is rare, but then so is food in the morning with our coffee! We see you folks who are the Line Crossers and the Rule Breakers as greater people who know that some rules should never have been put on the books. That compassion must overrule the laws of the land within reason and humans need food and water more than handcuffs. Frankie, Barb, Johnny Boy and Billy Bob, and I have watched many on the streets slowly go crazy, change their behavior, and get really sick because they have had no food. Hey, Pete, they are rebels with a great cause, right? Yes, Frankie and we close with a heartfelt thanks,
Hey, it’s me, Billy Bob, just want to say that in being a line crossers and rule breakers we are not encouraging radical lawlessness in the land, but we are standing with compassion over the stupid laws that make no darn sense when folks are hungry and in need. Each person has to decide if the risk is with the reward or not, blessings y’all.