Midland Reporter-Telegram
MIDLAND, TEXAS - One morning in the late 1990s, Ron Hall’s wife, Deborah, woke up and told him about a dream she’d had. Her dream was about a homeless man who she believed would change their lives and the city where they lived, Fort Worth.
“She asked me to go into the city and find this man,” Hall said. “Her dream was so real that she believed if we found this man, our lives would be changed.”
Hall reluctantly began a search for the homeless man from his wife’s dream. He started working at a homeless shelter, and within two weeks, a man came in and “tried to kill everyone,” Hall said. His wife told him, “That’s the man. I believe I heard it from God that you have to be his friend.”
Thus sparked a friendship between Hall, an Army veteran, cowboy and artist, and Denver Moore, a homeless man from the streets of Fort Worth. Hall chronicles the friendship in his book, “Same Kind of Different As Me,” which is also the inspiration for an upcoming movie..
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