Complicated folks and jokes told as testimony to those things above my head. What can be said about their works and the perks, excepts some are equipped nicely while others feed the trolls? Is each soul of equal performance, the Sudanese, Bolivian, Mongul, Roma or weed smoking weirdo beneath the 10th Street Bridge. What gives them the strength to pass oblivious? How do I excuse myself when I am the one supposedly in charge? You mean they could actually have an alternate agenda to which none paid heed because we thought them our public servant? It is a strange feeling this waking up, it doesn’t tickle.

We see people leaving entire fortunes to pet cats, men trading in $100,000 cars to suit their whims of middle age and governments paying $12000 for a hammer.  With all this blessing we still have a great number of displaced American’s living in boxes, barns, beside dumpsters and desert dunes. Are they, as the innocent done away before birth, somehow less important, disposable by categorization of impact on our pleasure and luxury. It’s their fault, you say.  Why certain that is truth, but truth does not alleviate the tragedy of our disinterest.  What then could or should be done about the burgeoning, no exploding, homeless population problem in the United States?

What then of the few who are not responsible for their circumstance? Do they now qualify for assistance? What of the man who asked you for money that you didn’t give because you knew he was going to drink it, but he really was hungry and never drank?  The Lord clearly said that if someone asks for some help you give it to them, in fact it implies that you go beyond just giving them some and give them your jacket too. I am not a man’s judge, if he is going to drink that is between him and God, though some would say that we cannot contribute to his illness.  That is a reasonable point, however do we not first have to become their judge and jury to determine that they have a problem that is beyond the answer to our prayers, or God’s capacity to resolve?

What about the errant angel sent to test your heart?  How then would you deal with the drunk man asking for some food if you knew he were an angel?  Ah, you would treat him differently, doesn’t that indicate something out of alignment within your thinking or your heart? Isn’t this more about our hearts than theirs, or perhaps about both in the same lesson. God giving us the poor and disenfranchised and God giving the poor us to see if the twain shall meet. What power would it give us as a nation if we came up with artistic solution and turned these miscreants without home into productive Americans or workers for the cause of Christ?

Look homelessness sucks, it is a drag on both parties those out in the environs and those who must accommodate them in their neighborhoods or provide for their needs in perpetuity.  There is a solution, though we collectively have never sat down and determined the best methods for resolutions, I believe because it is another political football utilized by the dysfunctional government to indicate that our system of government needs to be changed so that they may convince us of the need for a totalitarian replacement.  This concept is a thousand times more frightening then a burgeoning homeless population.  Let us get our hearts right and begin to have a chat about how to resolve this problem in a sound mind with love for all involved. The likelihood of it simply going away by itself are obvious and false.  Something must be done.  The question really is are our hearts and minds in the right place to take the time in prayer, conversation and action to resolve these problems that are being left because they want a global government to resolve them?