I saw one of my homeless friends at church Sunday. He’s been trying to get off the street for a while, and trying to get help for mental illness. It’s hard to get housing when you have no income, and it’s hard to get help for mental illness when you’re homeless and have no insurance. I knew the odds were against him. But I didn’t expect what he told me next.
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When you belong to the world, the world tells you who you are. But when you belong to Jesus, your identity is in Him. And Jesus said:
“If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. Remember the word that I said to you… If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you… because they do not know Him who sent Me.” — John 15:18-21
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The source of my strength:
“Unfailing Love,” sung by some guys at a youth camp. I don’t know them, but God bless them. I needed this today. Hope it blessed you, too.
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It’s been quiet on the Troublemaker’s blog for the past few days, so we agreed that I should post this report to let you know what he’s been up to. And it turns out, that today it’s Christian rhyme. Here’s an example:
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I saw one of my homeless friends at the library today, and he had a bright green bandage wrapped around his arm. “What happened?,” I asked, concerned. “Plasma,” he replied.
I knew that some homeless people sold plasma. But I didn’t know the details, so I asked him to tell me about it, and he did.
Yesterday, I spent time with a homeless friend who’s working hard to get off the street before another winter gets here, and he’s struggling against the barriers. He talked to me about some of the difficulties that homeless people face in Greensboro:
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In July, I wrote about a homeless friend who was hit by a car while riding his bike. He suffered a broken neck and broken leg in that accident and spent a long time in the hospital, followed by some time in a nursing home, which he left a few weeks ago. He’s now back on the street, living outside again, walking on crutches for now. But he doesn’t have a bike anymore.
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I dropped by the downtown library this evening, where the Food Not Bombs crew feeds the homeless on Monday evenings. I sat on a bench and talked to several of my homeless friends that I hadn’t seen recently. We all shivered in the breezy cold. As I drove home to my warm house, I thought of all the people who will sleep outside tonight. The forecast temperature overnight is 32 degrees. That’s freezing. Tomorrow night’s low is 31. The shelters are full. And emergency winter shelters open on Dec. 15th. That’s 53 more days…
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I’m waving the white flag on redirecting my old Blogger blog to this new WordPress one. I’ve tried three scripts thus far, and I’m tired. The first one didn’t work at all — it just made the Blogger page go crazy reloading itself over and over and over. The second one worked only on the home page.
To the men and women of the Greensboro Police Department, and to Interim Chief Tim Bellamy:
The RMA report was posted online today. Some who’ve read it say it will help all of you. Some who’ve read say it will hurt some of you. I haven’t read it. I don’t know. But I am praying for you tonight.
Talking to team leader Steve Still today about NightWatch. Frustrated about the lack of options for emergency shelter for homeless people in Greensboro.
For families, there’s GIHN and Pathways. They stay full all year ’round. (I think Pathways had 40 families on the waiting list, last time I checked.) They’re shelters, but you have to apply and wait to get in.
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Ben Holder, aka The Troublemaker, now has the infamous RMA Report.
Me: “You have the whole thing, but what did you post?”
Ben: “The first page of the table of contents, but not the second page. Dialup’s slow.”
Me: “Is that all you’re gonna post?”
Ben: “As of press time, yes. I’m just trying to keep up with the Mickens.”
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