You trust a homeless person?!

If you are friends with me on any social media platform you know Jason and I befriended a young single father, who just happens to be homeless. We have pretty much adopted him and his five year old son as our own and have been taking care of them as well as we can. Yes, that includes buying him things he needs. I know-you don't even know this guy! Or everyone's favorite assumption "he probably does drugs". If you think either of those things, you're wrong! We actually had no idea he was homeless for about the first week of our friendship, we met at the pool and our kids got along and he was a former teen parent so he was one of us! We had no clue we were changing his life that much by inviting him over for a meal or two or giving his son a hoodie on one of the cold summer nights. It wasn't until a street fair happened and Jason offered to pick them up he confessed to living in a hotel, that was when we realized how bad this was. So, yes we do in-fact know the guy, which means we also know he doesn't do drugs. The reason for him being homeless is personal and yes he knows I'm writing this he's actually sitting next to me as I type it, but I won't be saying why he is homeless out of respect to him. However I will be saying this, yes it is often times hard to trust a homeless person I mean you never know what they will spend the money on. We actually have a local guy who goes around asking for money and then goes to the bar and spends it on beer. My advice, if you're helping a homeless person give them food. His sign he stands with actually says he would rather have food than money and he full heartedly means that. If someone is truly down on their luck they will appreciate anything you give them trust me, I've seen this first hand with his son. This post isn't to pat us on the back, it's to show you the good side of homeless people because our blog is all about acceptance-for everyone!