casey-gwinn-bio1-sLast night, my wife and I watched “Where God Left His Shoes.”  It is a very disturbing and challenging movie about a battered woman who leaves her abuser and marries an aging, unemployed boxer.  She has a son from her abusive husband, and together they have a daughter.  Through a series of bad breaks, they end up homeless in the weeks before Christmas in New York City.  They are in and out of shelters and have a chance for a low income apartment but without a job he cannot qualify for the run-down dingy apartment that they have pinned their hopes and dreams on.  At one point she almost goes back to her abuser when they get kicked out of a homeless shelter.  It is one of the most disturbing movies I have ever watched.  There is no happy ending.  At the end, my wife Beth and I talked for hours about the personal responsibility we have to help those God brings into our lives and about the corporate responsibility we all have in helping those that find themselves at the end of hope with nowhere to turn.
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