by Renee Morgan

Created on: June 10, 2008   Last Updated: July 25, 2009

We as God-fearing people should accept people for who they are and stop trying to change people into what we want them to be.

When we look at people and see their way of living life, it is not for us to judge but repeatedly we cast judgment up on our fellow man by saying things like, Look at him sitting on the stump all day while his wife works herself to death. This is her husband and more than likely, she knew how he was before she married him and she has accepted him for whom he is and besides we do not live in their house, so we do not know the real reason that the husband do not work.

People see bums and hobos, quickly point, and talk about them, not realizing that for what ever reason, that is who they are. I have always taught my children, not to judge and point, choose friend by how they treat you not by how they look or where they live. We are all human and we all need the social contact of ours and sometimes we will meet people whom appear not to want human contact but the truth is that they do not want contact from people who are judging.

In the 70's, I won a company logo design contest, I was invited to the White House, nice uh. At 16years-old, I left home and a group of prostitutes made sure that I stayed off the streets, not too shabby. At 22year-old, the neighborhood crack head made sure that no one would break into my home when we had to go and the area bum made sure all the children made it to school safety and would tell if he knew of one skipping classes. Now what if I had judged all these people by how they looked or their occupation.

At 26years-old, a gay man took up around me, I would get off work or out of classes and there he would be at my doorstep. He would rush me in the house, help the boys with their homework and cook dinner. Then he would make the boys take their bath, and he was the only babysitter that made my children say their prayers before going to bed. One night my ex- husband was around the windows of the house while the children and I were asleep, my gay friend whom everyone else talks about, caught him and told him that next time he will kill him, he was the first step at getting my ex to stop stalking me and this friend that everyone else talked about would be at the bus stop when the children and I got off the bus and sometime he would come to the daycare or college campus and just to ride the bus home with us.

Be it the President of the United States, a junkie on the streets or just some everyday Joe, life is full of different people and you never know who God sent there for you!

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