The Reality of Redemption
If you have watched television, listened to the radio or visited Youtube in the last 48 hours you have probably heard or seen the story of the homeless voiceover artist Ted Williams.
Dateline Columbus, Ohio. A reporter interviews the homeless man with the golden voice then publishes his story and viola that homeless man appears this morning on the TODAY show with Matt and Meredith.
Ted Williams a radio personality in the 80’s found his journey to the future wrought with tragedy. Drug addiction, alcohol addiction, petty larceny and forgery, time behind bars and eventually life on the street seeking the essentials of life from the random homeless shelter that might have a bed or a change of clothes for him, Ted Williams should by all reason be defeated and hopeless. Instead America sees is a man who wants to make a comeback to the human race. The road ahead will be difficult as he transit0ions from the world of the unknown to the world of the known.
I am thrilled this gentleman will have a second chance and I pray that he will not stumble on his new path.
Ted Williams has inadvertantly become the face of the homeless in America. His phoenix like rise from the ashes reminds us all that anything is possible in this great country of ours. I wonder if the cure for cancer, hunger or war lines in the brain of a homeless person we are passing on the street.
The homeless problem does not exist in big cities alone, in fact more and more we are seeing homeless citizens showing up in small towns and hamlets across the United States. We cannot pretend they aren’t there. We cannot ignore them because they are unwashed or ill. What we can do is begin the process of understanding.
The homeless population in America is made up of people just like you and I. Veterans, Teachers, Craftsmen, Authors and as we have discovered Voiceover Artists. Yes there is mental illness, yes there is disease and yes there is addiction ever present in this ghost population of America. One can’t imagine the trauma these people go through every day unless they themselves have lived on the streets.
I am not recommending that all Americans go out and pick up a homeless person and bring them into your homes. What I am asking you to do is educate yourself, become aware of the plight of your fellow man and then reach out to an organization that can help these people. There are many organizations that need your support. If you can’t donate cash donate your time. Do not be too proud to do something, after all we just witnessed a man go from begging for change on the side of the highway which unknown to him would soon become the on ramp to the road to redemption.
Congratulations Ted, I hope you will set an example to the rest of America with your new life.
~The Head Who~
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