Homeless and Comfortable

Good morning.

i would like to take the time to discuss a few items;
first of all

1.) being poor and panhandling isnt a sin
2.) no one can pass judgement on any soul
3.) circumstance dictates our lives, so therefore you cannot automatically say; why cant they get off there lazy butt and get a job, or there are lots of places to eat at the local soup kitchens! life isnt always that simple for people in this area of life. for one, people who pass judgement more and likely do not give to charity. Second of all, all those neat and usefull charitys you hear about, more and likely have run out of funds soo many times out of the year that they can barely keep up with the influx of homeless individuals and familys out there.
4.) Ive heard many times that if you give them money, they will just go get high, or drink, or spend it on ciggarettes.  while this is probably true, there is always a way around this.

(Addictions are an illness no matter what anyone says, so to attain that high one needs to feed there addictions, they will go to great lengths to get it. whether it be selling those food coupons you give to them, or other clever ways to get what they want.)

  Please understand, the only way to help them is to give them benefit of the doubt and give them coupons, or food vouchers, or actually getting them something to eat and giving them some company! while this is a gray area, one cannot turn there head to our duty to take care of our neighbors. And yes another better way to help them is to give when you can to those charitys everyone assumes have bottomless pocket books.

also to make sure they get what they need, work with your local charity, and point the homeless to that certain charity you have given too!

the homeless are out there, they are desparate, they may be rude and unplesant to be around because of the lack of cleanliness. but ask yourself, in times of desparation what comes first?  the perfume you wear, that nice soap you use, the tv dinner you have. that nice bed.  
take all that away, and you end up exactly what you see on the streets, an individual, not a statistic, not a panhandler, not a pest,
but an individual with a heart and soul.

open your eyes

open your ears

and weigh what is actually going on.

Do not pass judgement on what you see on the outside because,

when you see the homeless,

they are real people with real problems.

they are YOU,  who just lack what YOU have been taking advantage off all our lives.

God Bless YOU!