Posted on January 12th, 2010 in homelessness
Daniel Mustard, Homeless Musician, YouTube Playlist. Uncommon. Wow. http://bit.ly/6466Qo
I can’t do this. I don’t know how to help anybody. People drowning in the bottle. People trapped in addiction. People tortured by mental illness. People being beaten. People getting raped. People going to jail and prison. People haunted by childhood trauma and abuse. People overwhelmed by lifetimes of tragedies, one after the after. People with nowhere to live, nowhere to go, nowhere to be. All around me — a human tidal wave of pain, pain, pain.
Tags: addict, alcohol, crack cocaine, depression, faith, God, Jesus, mental illness, music, needs, stories, video
This is the song on my lips and in my heart these days — a song of hope and healing, a song that restores and refills me when the flood of pain around me threatens to overwhelm my soul:
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Posted on December 18th, 2008 in faith, homelessness
This song was performed at the Night of Remembrance at Grace Community Church in Greensboro on Wednesday, December 17th, commemorating National Homeless Persons’ Memorial Day 2008:
Lyrics below
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Posted on December 09th, 2008 in faith
Easter begins at Christmas. The King who came to die. And rose again. And lives today. Hallelujah. Jesus Messiah, LORD of all.
Jesus Messiah, Name above all names, Blessed Redeemer, Emmanuel, Rescue for sinners, Ransom from Heaven, Jesus Messiah, Lord of all…
Posted on November 26th, 2008 in community
Buy Nothing Day Spectacular
Because there are better ways to make merry
Friday, November 28, 2008
10:00am – 3:00pm
The HIVE, 1214 Grove St., Greensboro, NC
Lock up your credit card, your debit card, your money dollar bills, and get/create some cool stuff while you’re at it. This Buy Nothing Day, come out to the HIVE for a Really Really Free Market, skillsharez, and music! Get rid to make room for new holiday clutter, find and/ or make sweet things for others or yourself at the nice price, hear some tunes, and kick off a new holiday season a little differently this year.
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Posted on November 03rd, 2008 in faith, homelessness
I saw one of our homeless lady friends at breakfast this morning. She sleeps outside. I noticed right away that she looked really peaceful and beautiful this morning. She struggles with addiction, and that battle is usually evident in her appearance. But not today. I went to hug her and tell her how pretty she looked. She told me that she woke up at about 3:00 a.m. and felt like she needed to read the Word.
Read more on God speaks to my homeless friend in the quiet of the night…
Posted on October 27th, 2008 in faith
“The glory of His perfect love is the heart of the story — the glory of the blood.”
Lyrics below.
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Talking to a girlfriend today about a mutual friend whose addiction is slowly, but surely, killing our friendship. She said, “You gotta hear this song.”
[Sigh.] Yeah…. what she said. Love my friends. Hate, hate, hate addiction.
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Posted on October 03rd, 2008 in community
The HIVE will celebrate its first anniversary with a full day of events on Saturday, October 18, 2008. All events are at the HIVE at 1214 Grove Street, in Glenwood.
10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. Really Really Free Market
in the parking lot of the HIVE; free clothes, free food, free household goods, free music free haircuts, and free whatever-you-and-your-friends-bring
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Posted on September 22nd, 2008 in faith
“Jesus Is A Friend Of Mine” is an 80’s Christian ska (yep, Jamaican rock/reggae) song performed by a Donny Osmond lookalike and some other uber-white people, whose super-sweet clothes and hairstyles take me back to my Southern Baptist youth. Only, my church didn’t rock like this.
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Posted on August 24th, 2008 in community
A cop’s take on Greensboro’s “good problem to have” — our partylicious downtown on a weekend night, shortly before midnight:
“We’re charging people with smoking marijuana. We got a line of traffic that’s not moving. We’ve got clubs that have radios louder than the cars that are driving past. We were trying to talk to the guy who was smoking weed, but we couldn’t hear him because the outdoor club music was so loud. We’re charging open containers like crazy. I could stand in one place and write citations all night long. We don’t even have to move. But this is ‘a good problem to have.’ It’s ‘a win-win situation’… [pauses to listen to radio] … Now we got someone pulling a knife on somebody, so I have to go. But this a good problem to have, yeah, this is a good problem…”
Robbie Perkins at the August 19, 2008 City Council meeting (comments begin at 03:25:50):
Read more on The popo reports on the good problem we have downtown…