Sorry I didn't post last week. I forgot to type up what I had planned. I hope you enjoy this!
May this make you think,
Jen
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Tuesday was my Nana's birthday, and we celebrated with a cake that had four different kinds of cake in it: chocolate, carrot, red velvet, and German Chocolate. Now, we were eating and my mom asked me why I chose red velvet, and I suddenly remembered part of my trip to SF.
We were given a piece of chocolate coconut cream pie and told to give it to a man named Charlie because it was his birthday.
So we went, handed him his cake, and sang Happy Birthday to him as well. And as he was eating he asked us how we knew his name. And we said, "It's your birthday, so we were sent to give you cake and they told us your name."
And he smiled and continued to eat his cake as he waited for either housing/job help or the medical center, I do not know which one. And a little while later he was still eating his cake and said, "My mom, she used to make me a German Chocolate cake on my birthday every year, and this tastes kinda like that."
And he thanked us for the cake as we went back to eat our lunch. But that made an impression on me. So many people in the Tenderloin didn't have a good childhood, or their mother or father left, or they simply don't have good relationships with their parents. And it was so nice to see this man so happy that he had something similar to his mother's German Chocolate cake.
I know that I have the parents that God always meant for me too have, and I am so doggone lucky to have parents who love me and are there for me. And as I look back, I know that God put Charlie right there to teach me that important lesson on just how much relationships with your family can impact you and your life, even years down the road.
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