Entertaining Angels

Yesterday was incredibly long.
I had to work (like, at my actual job) from 8:15 to 2:15ish and headed straight over to my SIL's house. It is our weekend with Chadee, so Chad brought her over to wreak havoc on Christy's house with our niece, Tori.
It was nice hanging out with the SIL and future BIL, Matt. We made brownies, which we ate with non fat-free ice cream and Christy and I settled in with Christy's best friend, Tanner and her new baby boy, E, to watch a movie - "The House That Prey's." Okay, honestly, I did not have high expectations of this movie, even though I am a huge Tyler Perry fan. If you haven't seen the "Madea" movies, you are really missing out.
Anyway, the movie was really good, mainly because of the awesome acting of Kathy Bates (I adore her - remember her playing Evelyn in "Fried Green Tomatoes"?) and Alfre Woodard (who also acted in "Beauty Shop" as the lady who busts out singing "Amazing Grace" when the power goes out). There was one part in the movie that really touched my heart. Alfre Woodard's character, Alice, owns a diner (A Wing & A Prayer) that she runs with one of her daughter's. This homeless guy, Nick, comes in, all dirty and looking more than a little crazy. You know, the kind of person that would usually be ushered out of any "decent" establishment faster than you can say needy. Alice walks immediately up to Nick, whom she obviously knows and has helped many times before, and welcomes him in, offering a hot meal and a shower and clean clothes in the back. She orders her daughter, who is doing her best to ignore Nick, to show help him. After she sits down and eats with him in her restaurant, she asks him to stay longer for supper, which he declines and says he needs to be on his way. She tells him that any time he wants to come back he's welcome and he leaves. Alice's daughter asks her mother "why she's entertaining that man, who's obviously crazy" and Alice's reply was, "because you never know when you may be entertaining an angel." Whoa.
That hit home for me. How many times have I overlooked people, chalked them off as beyond help, beyond hope? How many times have I declined to "entertain an angel" because of my own self-centeredness?
The movie is pretty deep and very moralistic, which is probably why it didn't get very good reviews, but the group that watched it last night are all fans!
To sum up the rest of the night:
My MIL came over to Christy's and we cooked out and then played a game of Apples To Apples (which I won) and then I headed back home right before Chad, Chadee, and Tori. When I got home, I was hit by the noxious aroma of poo, courtesy of Lucy who had had a blowout in her cage. Because I freeze in times of disaster, I called Chad and told him he needed to hightail it home. I will spare you the gory details, but needless to say, I was bathing a very yucky pup at 10:00 last night while my sweet husband cleaned up the majority of the mess. I love him.
We settled in last night with one clean puppy and one semi-stinky dog in our bed. Life just doesn't get much better.