...homeless

So today was the first day of AIM Bossier and it makes you realize how truly blessed we are each and every day to just have the utter basics. The things that we take for granted today, not because of any fault of our own *that we realize at least*, but simply because it is that needed in our everyday lives. Such as water, heat in the winter, clothes, or even food. They're things that we don't miss until they are gone. But take a look at the streets of any downtown in any city across America and somewhere you will find the homeless. Rather it's out in plain sight or hidden behind a pretty façade, it's still there. Even in this city of Shreveport-Bossier it's still there. But so often we mark them off under our own kind of caste system as the untouchables. Yet, these are the people that Jesus loved and hung around. These people the drunks, the stoners, the hookers, and pimps. He chose to be around them. Why? Because they were the ones who needed him the most. So who are we to say that we cannot talk to a homeless person -a possible lost soul- when Jesus loved them?

To be at home when you are nowhere certain, whenever you are there with no one certain. And yet, I am home. I don't really know this place that I find myself. For, what is home really? You can live somewhere, be at your house, but not be at home. My home is where memories and love are. Not that romantic fickle kind, but true; brother, sister, mother, daughter, father kind of love. The kind of love that makes me feel home is the love that caused one man to die. I didn't ask, nor did anyone else ask for him to. But he gave it all for the love to make us be at home. So that, on that day, our last graduation day. We can walk out of the grungy doors of this decaying house. This sad excuse for an abode. We can walk in through pearly gates. Into our real home. Around strangers from the same Father. Around friends we've never met. and siblings that we never even knew that we had.

"In my Father's house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am..." -John 14:2-3