Sunny and Shawn

At 6:30 AM, I went to walk my dogs at a nearby dog park in Downtown Los Angeles on 9th and Flower. As I was walking, I noticed a man sitting on the ground with a sign that said:

오전 6시 30 분에 저는 9 가와 Flower에있는 LA 다운타운의 인근 개 공원에서 개들을 보러갔습니다. 내가 걷고 있을 때, 나는 한 표석에 앉아있는 한 남자를 보았다.

"Homeless and nothing to eat. Please help every little bit counts, God Bless and thank you"

"집이 없고 먹을 것도 없으니 조금씩 도와주세요. 신의 축복과 감사합니다."

I stopped and said, "Why are you here? You don't need to beg for food, why aren't you on Skid Row where you can get food without having to beg for it?"  Shawn said he had been kicked out of Skid Row because he was loaded (on drugs). Now that he was sober, he was hungry.

나는 걸음을 멈췄고 말했습니다, "왜여기 있니? 음식을 구걸 할 필요가 없다. 왜 구걸하지 않고도 음식을 얻을 수 있는 스키드로우에 있지 않니?"  Shawn은 Skid Row에서 쫓겨났다 고 말했습니다. 이제 그는 마약과 술에 취하지 않고 배가 고팠습니다.

"Do you believe in God?", I asked. "Yes", he said.
"Do you know Jesus?", I asked. "No, I don't know who that is", he said.
"Who is your God?", I asked. "There are many Gods in the world", he said.
"No. There is only one God. God, the Father, His son, Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit."

"너는 하나님을 믿느냐?"나는 물었습니다. "예"라고 그는 말했습니다.
"당신은 예수님을 압니까?"나는 물었습니다. "아니, 그가 누군지 모릅니다."  샨이 대답했습니다.
"당신의 하나님은 누구입니까?"나는 물었다. "세상에는 많은 신이 있어요"고 그는 말했습니다.
"아닙니다. 단 하나의 하느님, 하나님, 아버지, 그분의 아들, 예수 그리스도와 성령님"입니다.

I told him that he did drugs because he is empty and asked him why he never quit. "I've been trying to quit for 20 years", he said, "but but everyone gives up on me and they keep sending me to shelters instead of helping me get to rehab, so I just go back to getting loaded". I told him, "I've struggled too, but if you meet Jesus and really follow him, He will help you and you won't need these drugs anymore."

나는 그가 마음이 공허하여 마약을 하고 있으며 왜 마약을 하고 있으며 왜마약을 끊는데 실패하는지 에 대하여 물어보았습니다. "나는 20 년 동안 마약을 그만두려고 노력해 왔지만 사람들 모두가 나를 포기하고 나를 재활원에 데려다 주는 대신에 나를shelter로 보내었다. 그래서 나는 다시 마약에 취한 상태로 돌아 간다."  나는 그에게 말했습니다. "나도 또한 고생한적 있단다. 그러나 예수님을 만나고 실제로 그를 따른다면, 예수님당신을 도울 것이고, 당신은 더 이상이 마약들이 필요하지 않을 것이야."

Shawn is from Ventura County, but the county kicked him out and told him to go to Skid Row 1 year ago. As an outsider, other homeless on Skid Row won't help him and he has no one to turn to. Shawn keeps getting kicked out of Skid Row because he is loaded, so I told him, "I'm going to introduce you to someone who has been on Skid Row for 7 years, so when you go back you will know someone who can watch out for you."

Shawn은 Ventura County 출신이지만, 카운티는 그를 쫓아내면서 1 년 전에 Skid Row에 가라고 했습니다. 아웃 사이더로서, 스키드로우의 다른 노숙자는 그를 도울 수 없으며 샨은 찾아갈 사람이 없습니다. Shawn은 스키드로우 에서도 마약에 중독되어 있기 때문에 그곳에서 조차 쫓겨나게 되었습니다. 그래서 나는 그에게 "스키드로우에 7 년간 머물렀던 사람에게 당신을 소개 할 것입니다. 그래서 돌아 가면 너를 돌보아 줄 사람을 만나게 될 것이다” 라고 말했습니다."

I didn't have any money on me, so I went home and prayed, to make sure this was God sending him. God gave me confirmation and I went back and gave him $10. Before I gave him the money, I made him look into my eyes and promise that he would not use this money for drugs. We prayed together and I told him, "See you tomorrow at 5:30".

나는 돈이 없었기 때문에 집에 가서 기도하여 하나님이 그를 보내 셨는지 확인했습니다. 하나님께서 저에게 확신을 주셨고 저는 돌아가서 그에게 $ 10를주었습니다. 그에게 돈을 주기 전에, 나는 그에게 내 눈을 똑 바로 보게 하며 돈을 마약에 사용하지 않을 것이라고 다짐 받았습니다. 우리는 함께 기도했고 나는 그에게 "내일 5시 30 분에 보자."라고 말했습니다.