Most Sunday mornings find me in Moore Square in downtown Raleigh. Moore Square is located near two homeless shelters and the city bus station, so it tends to be a magnet for the homeless population of Raleigh. I jokingly refer to it as my office.

On Sunday mornings, myself and somewhere around seven or eight others bring biscuits, coffee and fruit down to the Square and share breakfast with our friends in the park.  No goals. No agenda. No preaching, no tracts, no loud ‘praise’ music, no four spiritual laws, no… well, you get the point.

Instead, we hug folks. We laugh. We give Danny* a hard time as he tries to ‘pick up’ a new girl he just met by the coffee pot. I joke with Dave* because he is jealous of my new boots someone gave me. Suzanne talks with transgendered people and helps everyone find clothes. Donna passes out biscuits. Greg does whatever Donna tells him to do. Chad is taking orders for work boots, so people can get back to work. I agree to go to court with Irene*, so she can get a divorce from her alcoholic, abusive husband. And somewhere along the way, we get lots of hugs, and listen to sad tales of how ‘this’ happened to them, and we learn that we are not much different than they are.

In fact, after you do this a while, you learn that there is no us and them. There is just us.

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*As always, I change the names of our friends in order to protect their dignity and privacy.