This was in my in-basket this morning from a dear friend who has an incredible heart for the marginalized in our society, in comes from the Denver Rescue Center.
As Jesus so clearly put it, the poor are blessed. The homeless often have the clearest vision of eternal mansions. Faith in the future is often strongest in those whose earthly situation is most tenuous. Longing for the fulfillment of heaven comes most naturally to those who suffer the greatest frustration on earth. In some ways, pity felt for the homeless is wrong-headed, since at least the believing homeless are richly blessed with a faith and hope that some of us will never know. Perhaps the faithful poor should pity us, whose spiritual life is so easily smothered by the cares of this world, by the deceitfulness of riches, and by the burdens of other concerns of life.
For all of us who are pilgrims, whether richly blessed in earthly things or not, for all of us who haven't yet reached "home," we know, as surely that Christ has gone before, that there is a "home, sweet home" yet on the horizon. Let's not get our roots down too deep. Let's not drop our anchor too heavily. Let's not put all our eggs in the earthly basket, since that basket will soon be gone. The home that awaits us will put all earthly mansions to shame. Let's be worthy of its beauty!
Thought: They are most "homeless" whose eyes are satisfied with earthly mansions.
Prayer suggestion: Lord, please use the Mission and your servants to serve the needy, and use the faith of the needy to teach your servants your mission.
Beautiful, " use the faith of the needy to teach your servants mission." In the last year down at the Seed, The Rainbow Kitchen, and out on the local first nation communities I have been blessed beyond words by those you have so little, those who are oppressed by every social injustice imaginable, addiction and mental illness.
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