RYAN
Two years ago I met a homeless man name
RYAN
At city hall, He had a beautiful German
Sheppard K9 dog
And he was a soldier in Afghanistan
He sleeps with a few other people at
Every night
Sleeping around him
It is so nice to see people caring for
other people, with his act of caring for his friends
After one year of not seeing
I finally saw him one night, he was much
skinnier than before, and he had lost a lot of weight and had lots of
Red dots on his face, I was so happy to
see him and I said
‘Hello
Where is your dog?’
He said ‘I had to give him away’
I said ‘why’,
he said ‘I had to’
I said ‘why do you have so many dots in
your face’
He went silent
I felt bad
Then he said ‘I have cancer, the doctor
said I am dying’
I feet so horrible
I said ‘I am sorry to hear that
‘If there is anything I can do please
let me know
I am here to serve you’
I saw him a few nights later giving the
finger to a security guy
I said ‘what is going on’ and
It was such a Miracle; I had only one
blanket left that my beautiful friend in charity’s family
Had given me and I gave it to
I went and told the security guy ‘you
know this boy you just kicked out
He doesn’t have that much time he is
dying
Have some Mercy’
A few nights later I saw him laying down
on the side walk but
He had a bag as a pillow under his head
I quietly put down his sandwiches,
water, cookies and Tea
Beside him and left, I didn’t wanted to
wake him up but I wondered what was in the bag beneath his head
I figured that it was all his cancer
medicine
It is such a tragedy to see a 34 year
old Canadian
Suffering on his last days like this
What a shame
I saw him a few nights later
I said ‘
I
MISS YOU MY BROTHER RYAN’
He said around, and then we chit chat
for little bit and then I had to go to serve the rest of Toronto
I said ‘do you want anything’
He said ‘COFFEE’
I said ‘you got it, wait for me at the
Coffee shop on
Up with whatever you want’
I got so busy serving my other homeless
friends that it took me almost one hour
To get to the coffee shop
When I finally got there
I brought food for
Jim is an old man, he is so sick and his
legs have been infected with some sort of disease that he can hardly walk
And
He can make easy $80 to $ 100 per hour
but he lost all his businesses and life over depression and
Medical conditions
Because there was a line- up at the Coffee
shop
I gave Ryan $3 and said “get yourself a
coffee and a donut”
I went outside and spoke to
He told me that it has been a very hard
month and asked me to put him in a hotel for a week
I said I could not do that but I will
put you in a hotel for one day to clean-up and rest
Then
He was quiet then I asked him again and
again
So he finally said
I gave the $3 to Jim
I said ‘why’
and
‘He wanted coffee too’
SO MUCH
Although he walked so far to get to the
coffee shop
Although he waited over an hour
Although he is dying and wanted the coffee
so bad
He gave it to the older man in need of
Mercy
So much compassion
There is so much
LOVE
for humanity, compassion, and righteousness
Among the poor
That the only way we can understand this
genuine way of LOVE rather than our way
of LOVE
is to be among and
SERVE
The poorest of the poor in need of
Mercy
“ Freedom consists not in
doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought. ”
Pope John Paul II
LOVE, ABBAS
In GOD We Trust