"Same Kind Of Different As Me"

I know I say this all the time..but this was an amazing book!  I guess I am easy to please!  The book tells the story of 2 men living 2 very different lives that intersect and then follow the same path.  And..it's a true story!

Denver Moore's life is sad, and overwhelmingly tragic as he makes his way through it.  When you read it you think you are reading a story that takes place post civil war, but shockingly it starts in the late 1950's and 1960's.  It is hard to believe that there was still share-cropping going on in the south which is basically slavery.  Denver has no education, no money, no job, basically no life but something inside him draws him to the railroad trains that run not far from his so-called home for a better life.  He ends up in Texas homeless just waiting for his life to finish...no family no family no home no nothing.  He frequents a homeless shelter where he meets Ron Hall and his wife Debbie.  Ron and Debbie are well to do white people who volunteer at the shelter as part of their strong Christian values. Suprisingly, they find common threads and forge a friendship with Denver.

The real-life story tugged at my spritual heart strings and showed me that there is God in everything and everywhere.  I finished this book feeling joy and wanting to meet these 2 men.

Here is their picture...