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GRATITUDE FRIDAY
How Do You Know Your Life Matters?
Very few people will tell you it does
Just thinking and dreaming won’t get you where you need to be.
Why does it have to be just your life? What if you give someone else a hand up? Isn’t that establishing their worth and yours?
True Story
As a very young boy, I was homeless. It was up to me to feed and clothe my mother, brother, and two sisters. Oh, and by the way, a proper apartment instead of a garage in an abandoned home was also on my list of things to get my family. I was only feeding them would be more accurate. I needed someone to believe in me and give me a job. No one wants to stick their neck out for some homeless kid.
It was late in the afternoon. It seemed like I had walked for miles asking every store owner for a job. At nine and a half, I was 5' 7" tall. Appearance told them they could hire me. As soon as I told them my age, they couldn’t help me.
On this particular Saturday, I was behind my favorite Italian restaurant, standing in a sea of galvanized trashcans. I was putting uneaten food into bags to return to where we were staying.
Suddenly, the back door opened, and a small Italian man smoking a cigar said, “Hey, what are you…
