Book Nerds and Boyfriends by Sarah Monzon

Author:Sarah Monzon [Monzon, Sarah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Radiant Publications
Published: 2018-12-31T05:00:00+00:00

Landon finished his prayer, and the other man lowered his sign, his face wreathed in a smile.

My heart flipped.

I said stop it!

Chapter Eight

The shifting of weight from someone behind me had me flicking a glance over my shoulder. Ken stood catty-corner to my left, feet apart, a frown tugging at the corners of his lips.

He sighed. “These situations always make me uncomfortable.”

I followed his line of sight, not understanding how Landon helping and praying for a man brought so low could make him uncomfortable. Unfortunately, men and women on the side of the road with signs asking for help wasn’t anything new. In Seattle, walking down a single block would bring you in contact with those less fortunate. It made me sad. Made me wish there was more I could do to help.

All right, sure, I’ll admit it. On occasion it made me uncomfortable too. But isn’t feeling a little discomfort good sometimes? We need to be shaken up by humanity’s plight, or soon we’ll all be sitting in sterile white boxes focused too much on ourselves and not enough on others.

Ken’s a preacher. He should know this. Didn’t Jesus say to feed the hungry? And what happened to the golden rule? And being His hands and feet? And all those other Christian-ese phrases church-goers spouted?

Ken took a piece of cloth from his pocket and ran it over his shining head. “I mean, how do we know that man isn’t going to take the money and buy drugs or beer or something? How do we know he doesn’t secretly live in some fancy house and he’s scamming hard working people out of the money they’ve earned from their own labor?”

I turned to him slowly. Did those things happen? Probably. Should it stop people from helping others? Absolutely not.

“And how do we know he isn’t a war veteran struggling with the horrible things he’s lived through?” I countered softly. “Or someone who’s made some bad decisions in his past and can no longer get a job because of a felony on his record? Or someone suffering from a mental illness that makes it impossible to work?”

Ken’s eyes narrowed as he stared at the beggar man. What did he think? That if he looked hard enough, he could discern the man’s past and then deem him worthy?

I sucked in a full breath, ready to hammer him with scripture. A tiny piece of me celebrated that he’d opened the door for me to vocally berate him over something. I mean, I had been holding back my sarcasm for a while, and even though I’d promised Claire not to get into a discussion with her future father-in-law about whether or not he deemed my sister worthy of his son, I had made no such promise about giving the man a piece of my mind on other topics.

Just as I opened my mouth to let him have it, he held up his hands.

“You know what? You’re right. Jesus never asked for a drug screening before He performed a miracle on someone.

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