February 6, 2022
Cards. Flowers. Chocolates. These may fade, wither, or never appear at all for many people. So let’s make February a theme that applies to all of us:
Friendship.
Ron Hall and Denver Moore had an unlikely friendship. Ron, a wealthy art dealer, and Denver, an African-American homeless man, become acquainted at the request of Ron’s wife, Deborah.
Deborah had a dream and word from God that He would bless their city through a homeless man she had never met. She asked her husband to join her in helping at a street mission, hoping that they would find the man in her dream.
They did, but when Ron went to see Denver by the dumpster where he lived, Denver was suspicious of Ron’s motive in befriending him.
Denver explained that when he was a boy, he often went fishing to provide food for his family. “But you white folk do something called catch-and-release. Is that what you’re goin’ to do with me, if we become friends?”
That question is answered in their moving and humorous memoir: Same Kind of Different as Me. (Also a movie by the same name.)
As a reader of memoirs, this one is in my top five. I challenge you to make fascinating people your “friends” by reading about their lives.
