Unlike most ,this young man approximately 20,looked hungry. He was wearing blue jeans and a white T-shirt. You could see his collar and shoulder bones through his T-shirt. He looked clean but famished. I thought either he was a drug addict or had aids. He was so skinny and pale no one could be that starved.
My youngest daughter said mother lets do something for him. As she said that he looked across the intersection straight into my eyes. I felt a very strong urge to
help him.
At that moment the light turned green and I couldn't get across the 3 lanes to him. To go back would have meant going 7 or 8 blocks around in a circle to
get back to him. I was in a hurry and didn't do it.
We continued through town and acoss the river approximately 6 miles. Maybe stopping at 2 traffic lights.
When we got to the next main intersection, there he
was standing holding his sign. He looked across the intersection at me again. Well you don't have to tell me twice.
I drove to McDonalds which was a half a block away and ordered him a meal and drove to where he was standing.
My husband always said don't give them
money . They"ll just buy alcohol or drugs with it. I thought I'm not hurting him buying him food, thats what he's asking for.
I called him over to the car and expected to see a blurry eyed drug ravaged person.
When he walked up to the car we handed him the food. He looked at us with the clearest ,beautiful, loving peaceful ,blue eyes I have ever seen. He took the bag . All he said was God Bless You.
This person was not drug ravaged or ill.
He turned and walked back to his sign. Put down the bag of food without looking in it and picked up his sign.
When he said God Bless You I started to cry. It was such an overwhelming feeling of love that I received from him. My oldest daughter who was 14 kept saying mother did you see his eyes?
I knew instantly that he was an angel and that he was standing at these busy intersections to see if there was any compassion left in this town or maybe just a
test for me.
I sat there a couple of minutes composing myself before I drove away , many cars passed and no one stopped.
The thing is he could not have beat me through town. I was on a one way street the quickest route through town.
Even if he had immediately jumped in a car he could not have beat me through town and got out in that intersection before I got there. It's been a couple years and I have no doubt that he was an angel.
My daughter still talkes about his beautiful blue eyes.