Always With You Series

The poor you will always have with you, but you will not always have me. — Matthew 26:11

How often do we take these words out of context, and use them as an excuse to do nothing or at very least, to worry about the poor last?

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Always With You (1)

Christopher Zimmerman

We saw them long before we got to our destination, on the imposing stone steps of St. Thomas Fifth Avenue – 'we' being a van of volunteers from Harlem, and 'them' a good dozen homeless men.

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On cold, windy days, or in rainy weather, most of our takers can be found in Penn Station itself, their bundles and carts and unkempt beards making them easy to pick out amid the pinstripes and silk scarves of the bridge and tunnel crowd.

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Always With You (3)

Christopher Zimmerman

Now the last container has gone, to a nameless preacher happy both for the soup and the chance to dispense some wisdom. “Play it straight, and keep down with J.C. Everything’s gonna be all right.”

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Always With You (4)

Christopher Zimmerman

“Give to the one who begs from you.” What simple words! Why is it, then, that so many of us purported followers of Jesus resist them?

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Always With You (5)

Christopher Zimmerman

"The poor you shall always have with you," Jesus said before his death. How often do we take these words out of context, and use them as an excuse to do nothing – or at very least, to worry about the poor last?

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