NOBODY CHOOSES TO SUFFER:
Today we share a fourth coreBELIEF. One that challenges the negative stereotype that people choose to be homeless.
"Nobody chooses to suffer."
Nobody chooses to suffer, nobody chooses to be cold, alone, sick, hungry or invisible. This is what homelessness is and clearly nobody chooses that.
In every nano-second of every day we humans make choices one after the other. All of them are what we believe to be the best for us in that moment. Every single person does this, homed or homeless. Blue shirt or red shirt today, coffee or juice, workout or relax, it is non-stop.
When life is good, the options are endless. For those struggling the options simply don't exist. A 16 yr old being sexually abused at home. Homelessness is not a choice, it is survival.
When a friend is struggling we ask, "What's wrong, are you okay, can I do something to help?" Why is it so difficult to extend this same compassion to the homeless? Do we think they don't hurt, or they deserve this suffering?
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James has been homeless since he was 15, he's now 54 years old trying to survive. Living illiterate and begging on the streets is all he knows.
ASK Blair Jordan, a young woman that befriended James, what she knows. She knows James is kind and funny. She knows too that he is struggling horribly. Blair knows these things because she has become his friend.
This is the work of Facing Homelessness. To bring everyone into friendship with each other so that we can be there for one another, whether laughing or crying. We need each other.
THANK YOU from the Facing Homelessness staff and board!
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