Category Archives: Homelessness

GREAT NEWS !!!

November 30, 2022Homelessness, OUR BEST POSTSHousing searchWilliam Tell

I’m lined up to get my own place.

The babies in the river

October 29, 2022Dependency, Homelessness, OUR BEST POSTS, PovertyAdvocacy, Chaos, Desmond Tutu, Discord, Harmony, Need, Relief, Swimming, Systemic injustice, Systemic racism, The babies in the riverWilliam Tell

A parable of relief vs. advocacy

“Relief” refers to providing for needy people’s immediate survival needs — food, shelter and clothing, direct material gifts. “Advocacy” refers to political activism, meant to change policies and laws. People and organizations who presume to serve the poor, face choices as to which one to emphasize.

The parable of the babies in the river addresses that choice. Activists love it. Desmond Tutu and others have endorsed it.

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That’s not a Bible study.

September 24, 2022Bible, HomelessnessBible study, Christianity, Disembodied speech, Empowerment Temple, Jamal Harrison BryantWilliam Tell

Same ol’ same ol’ doesn’t deserve my attention.

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Hawk Newsome, BLM and NYC

September 10, 2022Homelessness, Poverty, SqualorAll black lives matter, Black-on-black crime, Blackness, BLM, Choosing feelings, Contempt, Crime, Hawk Newsome, Neediness, New York City, Responsibility, White supremacyWilliam Tell

The people in a place make the place.

New York BLM co-founder slams Mayor Adams for failing Black residents: ‘City is a warzone’

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Some more prayer exercises

September 8, 2022Bible, Homelessness, The Way of Peace, Thursday postsAnger management, Bullying, Burnt offerings, Haters, Nitzotz, Prayer, Sacrifice, TantrumsWilliam Tell

Previous post: Some prayer exercises

Monday morning, Pastor asked me to pray about some anger management issues among our youth. Some have been somatizing their anger, e.g. having seizures; others have got in fights at school. Tuesday morning it came to me that I have already reported a number of techniques to use, in the previous post above. The new notions that came to me are here below.

It won’t be feasible for me to teach these to the children myself, since Youth Group meets on Sundays after the deadline for me to get back to the shelter. But some of them may be usable in Children’s Sermons.

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Bootstraps

August 18, 2022Bible, Get on your feet, Homelessness, Justice, Thursday postsBootstraps, Choosing feelings, Marriage, Prayer, Psalm 150:6, PsiWilliam Tell

Psalm 150:6: “Let all things that have breath praise the Lord.”

At the homeless shelter where I stay, we’re required to attend chapel every night. Monday, for the first time in months, Jervis Ray preached. His text was Psalm 23. However, he was soon enough back to his same old same old, haranguing us that we’re not grateful enough for our “blessings.” “God woke you up in your right mind,” with the use of two arms and two legs.

He calls us to praise God that our bootstraps aren’t like others’. “There are lots of people in hospitals who don’t know where they are.”

That stung me, as my oldest brother will be soon enough in just that state.

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