Chapter 6 - The Call of Stories

At the beginning of this chapter, he tells a storiy about Virginia Ramirez who was challenged by her community for their lack of compassion. Virginia watched her elderly neighbor die due to local poverty and detiorating housing needs. She was motivated by this story to rethink her own life and to feel empathy again.  He goes on to tell another story about Chris Kim who was changed by a fourteen year old black boy. The boy stole a pair of pants from the clothing store Chris ran in his minimall in a poor south Seattle neighborhood. Chris and another Korean store owner grabbed him, called the police, and were ready to press charges. Then Chris thought about Christ’s message of responding with forgiveness, not retribution. He decided to talk with the boy and his parents. “We always say we love our neighbors, but we never do it and risk something that belongs to us." Come to find out all the boy wanted was a job and Chris gave it to him because of his faith in God. He said he never would have connected with other races if it wouldn't have been for the boy. Chris also said that once you start to share it get easier and that you can never go back to who you were before.