The Path Ministry

  We've all seen tents pitched on sidewalks and people sleeping in doorways wrapped in blankets. People with nowhere else to go. The ones who aren't on the bottom rung of the ladder; they can't even reach that. One bad month, and you could be joining them, unless you have enough money set aside to cover six month's worth of expenses. A sudden illness or injury leading to a huge medical bill, your car breaking down and costing you half your monthly income, a divorce or death of a spouse, and it would be you in that tent. There are a lot of preconcieved notions about homeless people, mostly because nobody is talking to, and most importantly, listening to them. I want to challenge those notions by sharing what I have learned through my own informal interviews with other unhoused individuals. First of all, everyone assumes that,  because so many homeless people are on drugs, that they are homeless because of the drugs. However, out of all 130 of those I spoke with, not a si...

 Okay, you guys, all of you need to sit down, shut up, and listen to me. This message is for all of you. I've had enough with the way you are behaving. You're more divided than ever right now, but all you want to do is point fingers. You are all harboring fear in your hearts and hate for your fellow man. All of you. Tell me you refuse to fear the Other and make the effort to understand them instead, and you are the few who are truly "woke." Tell me you hold no hatred for another and you have done the work to address the hate and answer it with familiarity. Only when we face our fears and answer them can we be truly free of hatred. In this way, as well as others, you have failed me. You have chosen to ignore my lessons and my message. Here's how: If I were to come back, looking the way I do and living the way I live, I'd be thrown into a concentration camp before I could open my mouth. I was a brown homeless immigrant, you guys, telling people to be nice, which...