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Jesus and Beans BY BRIAN HUNTER WITH COLLABORATIVE INPUT FROM BONNIE OBREMSKI
I was working down at the welfare office, trying to help some poor folk out. But they helped me learn some things, other than lack of economic clout.
They got some issues, that might not immediately come to mind. Like how you can't afford the necessities of life, when it takes all your money to have a good time.
Living on the street, there’s a stigma to bear. Everybody hands out free advice but, Hey people, they ain't going anywhere!
When all they need is soup and rest, They get referred down to the gospel mission, preached at "Jesus knows best!”
But all they get there is beans and Jesus, Jesus and beans, Beans and Jesus is all they get.
An old drunk told me, "I wet myself after so many beers. Jesus can walk on water, but the mission don’t let me near, Can Jesus accept the life I'm living, pretty near to crucified? I am not sainted. I do not have God inside.”
Old drunks that believe in nothing, drinking is what they got. To them, it's more important that they do than that they do not.