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{July 11, 2007}   Homelessness

 

Mother Teresa

 Hungry not only for bread – but hungry for love. Naked not only for clothing – but naked for human dignity and respect.
Homeless not only for want of a room of bricks – but homeless because of rejection. ~Mother Teresa~

Have you ever been thankful for food?
And no, I don’t mean thank God for chocolate,
I mean so hungry you didn’t care what was put in front of you
– you were simply thankful for it?

Imagine the last slice of bread in the bag
and being grateful that it was in there,
even if it was just the heel.

Now imagine feeling that way
after you dug it out of somebody else’s trash?

Could you do it? What if you had to – could you then?

You might think it could never happen to you – but what if you’re wrong?

Did you know that the best way to learn humbleness is to be humbled?

What if you woke up humbled and hungry
and realized that God was slapping you in the head with a 2 x 4?

I want to share with you what I said when He did it to me,

THANK YOU.

Homelessness is a person without a home.
I have never had a home in life until I met God.

I don’t mean a place that I own,
I don’t mean a family that loves me,
I don’t mean a community that accepts me

–What I mean by home
is a place where I belonged.

John 14: 1-4

Jesus Comforts

“Do not let your hearts be troubled.
Trust in God; trust also in me.
In my Father’s house are many rooms;
if it were not so, I would have told you.
I am going there to prepare a place for you.
And if I go and prepare a place for you,
I will come back and take you to be with me
that you also may be where I am.
You know the way to the place where I am going.”



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