Mark

Two nights ago after church I overheard a guy saying that his plan for the next few weeks might be to live in his car. For no good reason I can now think of, I turned to him and said "I have a couch you can sleep on for a while if you want."

It wasn't that insane in retrospect. I've had total strangers stay on my couch before (thanks Couchsurfing.com) and I've stayed on total strangers couches before. And since Mark knew folks that I knew....it seemed much less insane.

For me though....I like the disruption of my routine. For about two and a half years (with intermittent gaps) I've had roughly the same daily routine. Get up, eat, dress, shower, go to work, work, come home, watch TV, internet, sleep. The monotony of the routine builds up after about a week. Less than that probably. Imagine doing it since 2007.

Maybe insanity is more sane than we give it credit for. Society seems to put so much stress on safety and security. Safety and security can be good, but they also make life predictable. Painfully horribly predictable. Even if your life was something like thrill seeker (bungee jumping and sky diving and that jazz matazz) if you knew every morning when you woke up that you would be thrill seeking....that would HAVE to kill some of the excitement.

I think we as people seek that which is new. Something novel. Every night we want to go to bed and say "Never did that before" about SOMETHING.

If that rings true...start today.

Besides, it's winter in Colorado. It seems horrific to me that there are tons of people sleeping in cars or on streets. I can't take in every homeless person in Denver, but if I can keep one person from sleeping in a car....that's a pretty good deal!