HOMELESS

In the Twenty-First Century we are seeing many individuals/families displaced with the wide spread of wars and dramatic weather changes. As heart wrenchingly tragic this is there is even a more devastating disaster that is at the forefront of homelessness, rejection. Every country has their homeless the ones that are shunned and invisible to the naked eye. The ones who are side step or walked over and we know them well perhaps they are our mothers, fathers, relatives and friends. We seemingly cannot make room in our lives to help them. This we feel causes a disruption in our lives that we are unwilling to endure. The felt distain refrains one from asking for help because the facts are eminently clear. Rejection is demoralizing and it crushes the mind, body and spirit and yet the homeless of our lives are just that homeless. If we say we are Christians are we not called to be Good Samaritans? Are we not called to help the homeless (read the Psalms)? If we claim we are Christians are we not to emulate our Shepard Jesus Christ? We must ask ourselves in honesty who are we and is our excuses to avoid the homeless no matter their circumstance be pleasing to our Lord’s ears and heart? We cannot use the excuse it was their fault even if it was; mercy is what Our Lord shows us are we not to give the gift back to the homeless. No one is without sin and no one is above another for as easily as the shoe dropped on the one now homeless it could happen to any of us feeling the true essence of the plight of the homeless wrapped in rejection. We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty...Mother Teresa ©Linda Mary Liotino ME A SERVANT OF CHRIST MISSION 2014 Photograph ©LIOTINO