When I read through my last blog so I did not feel like writing really what I experience here. The most glaring
what it says here, is the strenuous Work. But that is missing from afar. It is completely different here. Someone once said after a church service with Bill Wilson to me that it would be inappropriate if he would constantly say, he was from another world. I could understand the two to three months, because it builds a distance. But it is true. The reality here is definitely very different.
Today I went to visitation. This is my visitation Site:
The houses with the red numbers I visit. These are Projects (public housing). Yesterday was a shootout just across the street next to my Projects. Today I spoke to visitation with a family who desperately want to move away, because of the violence, shootings, life here no longer cope.
When I got in Throop Ave. was 220, said my Worker (Malik, 12 years), 'You know, Daniel, there should not be pure. Because of it is shot. "
last week announced a critical court ruling in the case of a deadly confrontation with police. Then there were all sorts of demonstrations, roadblocks, etc. in response. As a voltage is in the air.
It's a different world with different standards, different values, different fears. People, even children grow up with it. For them, these are not surprising news. It is only a gunfight. I will anyone shocked with what I write. Honestly do not, I would only describe what happened here and what changed me.
What a fabulous thing it is there, that today I could go to these kids. In not a few homes, I can smell that there is smoked pot. Seconds before me, the door is opened, I hear the children shouted. Then I talk to them and invite them for tomorrow. Maybe it's the first nice word and smile for them this week, who knows. Tomorrow we will go out with our buses and pick them all. Ca. 5000 Kids will be together in order to tell them anything really relevant. It will be about trust. That it to a vertauen can, if anything disappointed ...
"Trust in God with all your heart ..."
Daniel
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