Tuesday, August 24, 2004

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........... when you end up living in a hostel usually there is no other option.

If you were made homeless - and could not sleep in your own home tonight,
What would you do?
- phone a friend?
If you are well financed and have a circle of friends like that, you may sleep in a spare room.
* if not a sofa
* if not the floor on a mattress or sleeping bag
* if not ........

- How long could you stay with that friend?
* before you moved on
* to another friend
* to a cheap B&B?

After that maybe a car if you have one - but for how long.???

Even we, - me - you, would have some pride and not want to impose on others.

If you had no dosh, no car, few friends, no job, broken relationships, cracked confidence (put your feelings there for a moment...........)
If you don't allow yourself to feel it - may be you will think about Ghandi when he was asked about the worst thing he had ever experienced in his life;
Quote
"the hard heartedness of the educated"

Think about it - just don't scroll down and glance at the words to find something which grabs your taste buds of the day.

It seems to me we need to refresh the irritation in our lives and feel the pain and mess and hurt and ghetto like feelings of other humans .....
Then the benefits will come from our sensitivity glands becoming active ................. the blood may rush to our soul instead of our purse or wallet - or protective screen....... hard heart ...........

I have been with people who are struggling with emotions and searching for a spark in their lives.
No fire - no flame - no smoke - no spark .....
....... and the guts they have to come to talk to me and other group members in their lowest ebb, is wondrous.
They come and say that they have broken relationships - want so wonder-full-ly to work (not for finance but satisfaction and dignity .............)
.............. and that is so fab because, by saying that, they are 'owning' their life issue and that means beginning the journey out of the hole.

I want to tell you about them - show you photographs but -not right.
I want you to know their realness - their personality their character.

Then you would understand me ........ and, I believe, them ....... and because I believe, I believe that it is about understanding God too.

Down your street, at your workplace ........ and more ...... there are humans in pain and have not got permission to tell you or others.
Somehow we need to let humans know that we are approachable and want to approach.
We too have hurts and scars and it is fab fab fab ...... to share them with another ...............




Where two or three are gathered together ......... there am I ...........

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