“But A Strange Thing Happened”
Here is a story that one of our volunteer spiritual companions shared recently:
“I just met with this man who is in recovery. Awhile back he was having a really bad day and he decided to go to a bar. On his way, he ran into someone who asked him, ‘Do you have God in your heart?’ He said, ‘That made me stop and think, but I continued on to the bar, one I had been to a million times.’
‘But a strange thing happened. Even though I looked for a long time, I couldn’t find it. I finally gave up and went back to the treatment center. I know this was a spiritual experience, but I’m still trying to figure it out.’”
This conversation is representative of the conversations we have, day after day, at our 25 City House sites of service, where we now serve at the rate of 4200 visits per year. In this case, as in countless others, the volunteer supported the individual in sorting out the meaning of this spiritual experience for himself, articulating it as a source of strength and hope in his life.
We are so honored to be invited to do this work and to be stewards of people’s sacred stories.
