Staying Strong

Today on the train...a man defeated temptation. There was an older man on his cell phone and I could tell that the person on the other end was asking him where to find drugs. The man kept saying that he didn't know, that he hadn't messed with the stuff for four years and he liked his life now. But I could tell the caller was insistent.

The older man said "If it will put me in jail it aint' worth it. I like my life. I gave my life to Jesus Christ and I'm not going back." He was firm and there was no way even if he did know where the caller could find some drugs, he wasn't going to contribute.

At one point he sounded like he was going to hang up on the insistent caller, but then he started talking about how good his life was now. He had a job, a home, money in the bank and friends that really cared about him.

In the end, the conversation turned in to an invitation for the caller to hang out that night, instead of finding drugs. I wanted to turn around and tell the man how touching the call was to me. I didn't even know the man and I was so proud of him!