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Category Archives: Homelessness
o Job search diary 08/03/16 – 08/09/16
| SATURDAY 2016-08-06 |
| Replacing IDs |
| Friday morning at breakfast, I was picking up my things to leave, and saw this other fellow’s things. He had no backpack to speak of, and had a King James Bible sitting on top of his stuff. He meant to carry that Bible in his hand everywhere he went all day. On the one hand, this struck me as foolish. On the other hand — where’s my Bible? It wasn’t among the stash I went through on Thursday 07/28. It must be somewhere. |
| Overnight I would recall that I had — or had had, at one time — some additional belongings stashed in the furnace room at church. |
| Today I looked there, and found two backpacks. I opened one, and there was my Bible, right there; and my IDs, the originals, just as I recalled them, in a glassine bag inside a manila folder. Many other important papers. All in remarkably good shape, given the extremes of temperature and humidity they meet in that room. |
| I’m back in business. |
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* Guilty plea in riots arson, assault
o Job search diary 07/27/16 – 08/02/16
| MONDAY 2016-08-01 |
| Replacing IDs |
| TO DO: (1) Replace birth certificate (2) Replace social security card (3) Renew state photo ID (Deadline 08/30/16.) |
o Job search diary 07/20/16 – 07/26/16
Thursday 2016-07-28
New hurdle: I’m undocumented.
* Job search diary 06/01/16 – 06/07/16
| WEDNESDAY 2016-06-02 |
| Aside: Re: Housing |
| Tuesday, my therapist asked me what I see as the greatest obstacle to employment. Answer: Housing. If I had my own place, I could work any hours, any shift; would be able to conduct job search until 5 pm daily, whereas I must appear at the shelter at 2:30; etc. |
| Wednesday, I met with a woman who comes to the shelter once a week; she comes from some City agency and tries to get guys hooked up with various resources, including housing. She said that, with only one exception, every housing facility she knows of requires that an applicant be either elderly (62 or older; I’m 60.), disabled, or both. She is to touch base with that one exception she knows of, and see if I might can get in there. |
o Three Spiritual Principles to Help You through Trying Times
An unexpected blessing, in my current trying times:
Three Spiritual Principles to Help You through Trying Times
Note, 08/01/23: The link no longer points there.
* The offering plate, part 2
ADVISORY: This post includes explicit content that some readers may find objectionable.
One lives in a world substantially of one’s own creation.
The previous post asked, “What can I give as an offering?”
As of now, I am essentially a panhandler.
* The offering plate, part 1
One lives in a world substantially of one’s own creation.
The offering plate came around, and I got a shock. I can remember when I dreamed of putting $60 in there each week, as the woman does who normally sits in front of me. No such dream is available to me now; I am unable to envision myself ever putting anything in there.
My circumstances have rendered me infantile; a complete “taker.” One of those who seeks to receive “blessings” rather than seeking to be a blessing, a “maker.”
What can I give as an offering?
The offertory hymn was, “We are an offering.”
We lift our voices, we lift our hands
We lift our lives up to You
We are an offering
Lord use our voices, Lord use our hands
Lord use our lives, they are Yours
We are an offering
All that we have, all the we are
All that we hope to be
We give to You, we give to You
We lift our voices, we lift our hands
We lift our lives up to You
We are an offering, we are an offering[*]
I myself can be my offering.
More about that next week.
[*]Author: Dwight Liles. ©1984, Word Music, Inc.
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Previous posts mentioning the offering plate:
I’m getting interviews!
What a homeless man dreams of
Previous posts mentioning the credibility of dreams:
Hope and vision
Reblogged 2023-10-05.
o Urgent need — GoFundMe update
I don’t like bringing messages like this, but it also doesn’t pay to be silent.
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I’m in a “moment.” God willing, it will be, and I believe it will be, a moment; but it is what it is. For the moment, I’m in urgent need.
As of 12:30 Friday 04/29/16, I have $6 cash and some change. The first $50 GoFundMe raised, has been exhausted; my bank balance is too low for me to be able to use the card. I will shortly pick up some prescriptions, but not all, as there are a couple $1 co-pays I can’t pay. The shelter has waived my rent through Monday, but they’re not going to do this forever.
Anything anyone can manage to give at this moment will be most appreciated.
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