Josh Burnett

I just read the book Same Kind of Different As Me incredible book.  It is the true story of a wealthy couple (Ron and Debbie) that befriends a homeless man (Denver) who then ends up teaching them more than they could possibly have imagined.  You should totally read the book.  Here is just one part of the book that really captured me.  This is a quote from page 179-180.

The next morning Denver knocked at the kitchen door again. We sat at the kitchen table, stirred our coffee.  He dropped his head and paused a long moment, unhurriedly collecting his thoughts like shells on a beach.  Then: “God gives each person on earth a set of keys, keys to live this life down here on earth. Now in this set, there is one key you can use to unlock prison doors and set captives free.”

Denver turned his head just slightly so that the right side of his face was closer to me than the left.  He leaned in with his right shoulder and narrowed his eyes even farther. “Mr. Ron, I was a captive in the devil’s prison. That was easy for Ms. Debbie to see. But I got to tell you: Many folks had seen me behind the bars in that prison for more than thirty years, and they just walked on by.  Kept their keys in their pocket and left me locked up.  Now I ain’t trying to run them other folks down, ’cause I was not a nice fella-dangerous-and prob’ly just as happy to stay in prison.  But Ms. Debbie was different-she seen me behind them bars and reached way down in her pocket and pulled out the keys God gave her and used one to unlock the prison door and set me free.”

Denver pounded home those last words like eight separate nails, then sat back in his chair, sipped his coffee.  He put the mug down.  ”She’s the onlyest person that ever loved me enough not to give up on me, and I praise God that today I can sit in your home a changed man-a free man.”

Got me thinking who are the people in my life that I need to see the God potential in?  Who are the people whom God has given me the keys to set free and all I need to do is use those keys?