Once Again I have been asked to leave a church for reasons only the Pastor might know, I was Not really in shock or awe over it I was more expecting it It seems what with all of the homeless and needy people in this country it is only fair that the church be able to protect itself from all the needy people.
I do believe however that Parkway Christian fellowship in Grants pass Oregon, has taken this a step further than most Church’s as They On their office door have a sign that is very clear. “ we provide emergency assistance and help through, Christian alliance, there # is (---)--- ----.call them for assistance. No soliciting.”
http://www.parkwaycc.com/
Now, as It was beginning to rain I gave no thought to being a problem to the church just to sit and wait for the rain to pass and In that Druid and I had a seat and began to talk when we were asked to leave I had felt as if it were going to happen However that the man who would ask someone to leave would be driving a 40.000 1930’s coup I did not expect.
But I in the same respect don’t often look in the building of the church. For my brothers and sisters in Christ. I have found so many living out here in this same life homeless, in need, and bound together with the inhumanity found elsewhere. But having found that common thread that binds us all and that is a desire for what is right and just for all and not just a select few. Men and women who are like myself and Druid are a blemish to the established Church in my opinion because with the likes of us sitting out of the rain under there eves and overhang’s mar the very foundation of what they deem the church. But when God says To us You have robbed me in tithes and offerings was talking about these men and women who call themselves a church. Yet refuse to even speak to one of Gods children because of His State in life. Many people would in my shoes look at the situation differently, Let us take Druid The Mans very name Cry’s out of not being of the same faith as myself or those in this Church, however between the two of us the lines are lifted by our common bond of oppression and our poverty and we see each other only as fellow men.
I do not judge Him by His Celtic walk or His spirituality or by His belief, I do know that being thrown from the sanctuary together we were viewed as being no different equal. My only hope is not to be viewed as this manner of Christian in the eyes of others I am confronted always with the distaste for the Faith in that the majority of those claiming it have this same air of righteousness about them they see others as less worthy of these blessings they perceive to be from God.
Gods Blessings So the Church Might know do not come in the form of riches God did not supply anyone in the church a car to drive around that is worth more than a mans life of comfort, a 1930’s coup too park before a sanctuary were men are cast into the rain rather than ministered to was Not I assure you Gods Plan for the Church.I Know that the Car that was parked before that church could house more than two men and is simply a symbol of what another man perceives as Gods blessing In His Life. It is a sad a simple thing and your fruit manifested this way is One of the World And not of the Spirit Of God. So I will keep this Church in prayer And Ask you do the same because I would they come to realize, " That which you do unto the least of these you do unto me” was Directed at us the Church. And Druid for those of My Faith That act in the world and not the spirit, I ask you forgive them they know not at anytime what they do. Judge those of My faith Rather in the common ground that we found and let them be blessed.
Monday, May 30, 2011
Friday, May 20, 2011
Gone fishing. Love Joseph
There is a lot to be said for a sunset on the Oregon Coast or anywhere I would say, but as this one was too myself long over due were I could just sit and reflect and not have to worry about so many simple things, Being homeless almost any place in this country is so much more difficult at least for me because Here I can not suffer any indignity because of hunger It is almost as if When I get to Oregon Food Almost crawls from the waters and the woods onto your plate. with little effort, No more daily drudgery of can I eat today or sleep without fear of harassment it is given man has to sleep and eat and here he is free to do so, A cook fire Here is as common as a stove in the eye’s of most people.
I won’t be as blessed as others to have internet everyday or some of the other amenities others have but I was able before coming to town today to jump in a river and bathe and off to town I went first time in years I have sleep in the woods without the dogs and I must say a little unsettling at first, The is a lot of creepy walky’s out here the creepy crawly’s I don’t worry they are littler definitely need to start thinking in terms of a tent to make myself look less appetizing than laying on the ground. I have the difficulty also of finding more fishing gear as mine was stolen from someone’s boat over the winter. I do however still have a couple of crab pots and a net so I will not starve. With the Morel mushroom at $13 a pound at market and something you can pick up all over the forest floor times are priceless. So Fishing gear should be replaced in short! Till then I am on borrowed Rods, limited tackle I'll have to Outsmart Them But hey Their Fish!!
So I do wish all My friends were here and I am hoping this finds you as blessed as I am Brookings and Crescent city today and The Sabbath In the woods do have the blessings of still having cook pots and coffee pot seems thieves who fish apparently don’t also cook or I would be in the market for a camp kitchen too. so if you are in Oregon anytime soon, and the Lord Be willing where ever I may be You are welcome at my fire for a Hobo meal and what little comfort He might provide. For directions or Phone Contact joseph2dogs.Gmail.com everyone welcome.
I won’t be as blessed as others to have internet everyday or some of the other amenities others have but I was able before coming to town today to jump in a river and bathe and off to town I went first time in years I have sleep in the woods without the dogs and I must say a little unsettling at first, The is a lot of creepy walky’s out here the creepy crawly’s I don’t worry they are littler definitely need to start thinking in terms of a tent to make myself look less appetizing than laying on the ground. I have the difficulty also of finding more fishing gear as mine was stolen from someone’s boat over the winter. I do however still have a couple of crab pots and a net so I will not starve. With the Morel mushroom at $13 a pound at market and something you can pick up all over the forest floor times are priceless. So Fishing gear should be replaced in short! Till then I am on borrowed Rods, limited tackle I'll have to Outsmart Them But hey Their Fish!!
So I do wish all My friends were here and I am hoping this finds you as blessed as I am Brookings and Crescent city today and The Sabbath In the woods do have the blessings of still having cook pots and coffee pot seems thieves who fish apparently don’t also cook or I would be in the market for a camp kitchen too. so if you are in Oregon anytime soon, and the Lord Be willing where ever I may be You are welcome at my fire for a Hobo meal and what little comfort He might provide. For directions or Phone Contact joseph2dogs.Gmail.com everyone welcome.
Sunday, May 15, 2011
The Day No Man Knows. ( The Rapture)
Mat 24:1 And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple.
Mat 24:2 And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.
Mat 24:3 And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?
Mat 24:4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.
Mat 24:5 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.
Mat 24:6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
Mat 24:7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
Mat 24:8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
Mat 24:9 Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake.
Mat 24:10 And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.
Mat 24:11 And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.
Mat 24:12 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.
Mat 24:13 But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
Mat 24:14 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.
I believe I have lived through this the beginning of sorrows when any Man with a pulpit,podium, or world stage, might come and say Look Here, Here Is this Christ Yet His true Spirit Is In them Not found, and there have been earth quakes in Divers Or unknown Places Where as never before the earth groans as if in travail all of Mankind Cry’s out because of wars and rumors of wars and nation has risen against nation, false profits have came forth and you and your children have been delivered up without mercy to be killed in there endless wars and all of mankind Has come to hate each other and the Love of Many has waxed Cold.and the Gospel Of The risen Lord Jesus Is spread unto the ends of the earth. This Being Said As I a Simple Man,View His Plan We could not possibly as Creation Of My God. Be any closer Than We are to the Very Kingdom of God Unfolding before those that truly believe.
Mat 24:15 ,When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place (whoso readeth, let him understand:)
Mat 24:16 Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains:
Mat 24:17 Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house:
Mat 24:18 Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes.
Mat 24:19 And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!
Mat 24:20 But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the Sabbath day:
Mat 24:21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
Mat 24:22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.
Mat 24:23 Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.
Mat 24:24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
Mat 24:25 Behold, I have told you before.
Mat 24:26 Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.
Mat 24:27 For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
Mat 24:28 For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.
Mat 24:29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
Mat 24:30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
Mat 24:31 And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
Mat 24:32 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh:
Mat 24:33 So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.
Mat 24:34 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.
Mat 24:35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
Mat 24:36 But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
I admittedly know not the day but I believe that To us Here Now Is this generation of Man. the kingdom is At Hand And I am speaking As Me The Body Of The Church, And you Know If we Had Six Years Collectively Could Not Prepare for The Tribulation To Follow for people who thought they had faith but where wrong. World Hunger, World War, World poverty, World Wide Class struggles, No Doubt In Any True Believers In Mind That Even though the Hour we Know Not, Nor does The principalities Or The Powers In which we Fight against, But Today is the day to put on the whole armor of God. So That Until Then And Then We can Be prepared. I now as a church am Ill prepared and am Caught like a woman in winter in travail. In The Blink Of An Eye.
Mat 24:37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
Mat 24:38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
Mat 24:39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
Mat 24:40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
Mat 24:41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
Mat 24:42 Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
Mat 24:43 But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.
Mat 24:44 Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.
Mat 24:45 Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?
Mat 24:46 Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.
Mat 24:47 Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.
Mat 24:48 But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;
Mat 24:49 And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;
Mat 24:50 The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of,
Mat 24:51 And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
This being my belief we should be Like Harold saying the time is at Hand we might have 6 Days Or 60 Days The Lord Is Coming Church Let Us be Found walking On His path watching For Him always And knowing We serve Him If we only have 6 minutes. Let Us If It be 6 minutes Be found In His Perfect Love He Is Jah The sacred name, Lion Of The Tribe Of Judah, Lord Most Vehemently.
John 14:1 Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.
John 14:2 In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
John 14:3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
John 14:4 And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know.
Even so Lord Jesus Come.
Mat 24:2 And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.
Mat 24:3 And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?
Mat 24:4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.
Mat 24:5 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.
Mat 24:6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
Mat 24:7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
Mat 24:8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
Mat 24:9 Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake.
Mat 24:10 And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.
Mat 24:11 And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.
Mat 24:12 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.
Mat 24:13 But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
Mat 24:14 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.
I believe I have lived through this the beginning of sorrows when any Man with a pulpit,podium, or world stage, might come and say Look Here, Here Is this Christ Yet His true Spirit Is In them Not found, and there have been earth quakes in Divers Or unknown Places Where as never before the earth groans as if in travail all of Mankind Cry’s out because of wars and rumors of wars and nation has risen against nation, false profits have came forth and you and your children have been delivered up without mercy to be killed in there endless wars and all of mankind Has come to hate each other and the Love of Many has waxed Cold.and the Gospel Of The risen Lord Jesus Is spread unto the ends of the earth. This Being Said As I a Simple Man,View His Plan We could not possibly as Creation Of My God. Be any closer Than We are to the Very Kingdom of God Unfolding before those that truly believe.
Mat 24:15 ,When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place (whoso readeth, let him understand:)
Mat 24:16 Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains:
Mat 24:17 Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house:
Mat 24:18 Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes.
Mat 24:19 And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!
Mat 24:20 But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the Sabbath day:
Mat 24:21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
Mat 24:22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.
Mat 24:23 Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.
Mat 24:24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
Mat 24:25 Behold, I have told you before.
Mat 24:26 Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.
Mat 24:27 For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
Mat 24:28 For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.
Mat 24:29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
Mat 24:30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
Mat 24:31 And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
Mat 24:32 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh:
Mat 24:33 So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.
Mat 24:34 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.
Mat 24:35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
Mat 24:36 But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
I admittedly know not the day but I believe that To us Here Now Is this generation of Man. the kingdom is At Hand And I am speaking As Me The Body Of The Church, And you Know If we Had Six Years Collectively Could Not Prepare for The Tribulation To Follow for people who thought they had faith but where wrong. World Hunger, World War, World poverty, World Wide Class struggles, No Doubt In Any True Believers In Mind That Even though the Hour we Know Not, Nor does The principalities Or The Powers In which we Fight against, But Today is the day to put on the whole armor of God. So That Until Then And Then We can Be prepared. I now as a church am Ill prepared and am Caught like a woman in winter in travail. In The Blink Of An Eye.
Mat 24:37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
Mat 24:38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
Mat 24:39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
Mat 24:40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
Mat 24:41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
Mat 24:42 Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
Mat 24:43 But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.
Mat 24:44 Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.
Mat 24:45 Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?
Mat 24:46 Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.
Mat 24:47 Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.
Mat 24:48 But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;
Mat 24:49 And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;
Mat 24:50 The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of,
Mat 24:51 And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
This being my belief we should be Like Harold saying the time is at Hand we might have 6 Days Or 60 Days The Lord Is Coming Church Let Us be Found walking On His path watching For Him always And knowing We serve Him If we only have 6 minutes. Let Us If It be 6 minutes Be found In His Perfect Love He Is Jah The sacred name, Lion Of The Tribe Of Judah, Lord Most Vehemently.
John 14:1 Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.
John 14:2 In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
John 14:3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
John 14:4 And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know.
Even so Lord Jesus Come.
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Another feeding of the beast.
A project to convert the former Michigan Bell Telephone Co. building in Detroit to housing for the homeless is nearly $2 million closer to achieving the $50 million needed to renovate the building.
This morning, a $1.9 million Department for Housing and Urban Development grant was announced for Neighborhood Service Organization, which is spearheading the project.
“This grant will have a significant impact on our efforts to end homelessness in the City of Detroit.” said Sheilah P. Clay, NSO’s President and CEO. “We feel extremely fortunate to be receiving such generous support from the Department of Housing and Urban Development for our work.”
Officials say the grant is the largest ever awarded in Michigan for new homeless programs.
NSO's project will create 155 one-bedroom apartments and support services to help stabilize formerly homeless adults, along with administrative offices for the private nonprofit human service agency.
Excerpt from An article By Michael wayland mlive.com.
Published: May 8, 2011 at 7:31 pm
The Maricopa County Association of Governments says it has been awarded $1.4 million in federal grants for three programs that will provide more housing for homeless people.
The grant money comes from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
The county association of governments says the money will provide 52 units of permanent housing for homeless individuals and people in the region.
The group says that overall, more than $219 million has been awarded to providers in the region for more than 56 programs providing transitional housing, permanent supportive housing and supportive services for the homeless.
These are Just two of many examples, Of what Is this Homeless mans opinion a waste of federal funding and in is also simply a way to provide the providers with job security. In the first article which can be found at mlive.com it tells a simple plan to build a permanent supportive housing complex. and pride themselves on the fact that it will house in one bedroom apartment units 155 homeless individuals and its concept also will house a private non-profit organization. No where in the article or in the proposal submitted to HUD for the Grant and public funding received, does it tally the cost as being over 300,000 dollars for each of the 155 1 bedroom units. am I the only one who see’s this and think it to be insanity at it best? I also find no hope in knowing that these are the people who are advocating what is best for the homeless population of this country it is the practice that keeps homeless people homeless and keeps the money flowing.
What I do know that the American people have been deceived in that they freely give these organizations an ability to exploit the largest growing sub sect of the American population today, the homeless and impoverished. and it is done because people think projects like these all across America that are absorbing the funding which should as allocated be going to help these homeless and impoverished peoples of our country.are our best alternative.
What I also know is that I with a 10th grade education and a lifetime of experience as a homeless individual in America, can with my limited knowledge of finance today buy and build a single family dwelling, on a one acre tract of land for less than 60,000 dollars. so where is the logic in spending 300,000 dollars to build a one bedroom apartment in a economically crippled city such as Detroit where as an end result you are placing people at risk because they have now become part of a HUD project, which to date has only served any community in the concentration of impoverished people to a undesirable section of our cities. Hence the term “Projects”
Hud is by practice a defunct and antiquated organization , which has failed the American people by continuing to allow these embedded non-profits to continue to operate devoid of results. For decades. the people most likely to bury their head in the sand and fight the hardest for it are those who along with HUD and Non-profits are those who really just want the homeless population of this country to not be seen or heard from and think this is the best way to achieve that. Me a 50yr old Homeless single male has a better chance of hitting the lottery than I do of ever seeing the inside of a 300,000 one bedroom apartment, And I don’t even buy lotto tickets!!
This morning, a $1.9 million Department for Housing and Urban Development grant was announced for Neighborhood Service Organization, which is spearheading the project.
“This grant will have a significant impact on our efforts to end homelessness in the City of Detroit.” said Sheilah P. Clay, NSO’s President and CEO. “We feel extremely fortunate to be receiving such generous support from the Department of Housing and Urban Development for our work.”
Officials say the grant is the largest ever awarded in Michigan for new homeless programs.
NSO's project will create 155 one-bedroom apartments and support services to help stabilize formerly homeless adults, along with administrative offices for the private nonprofit human service agency.
Excerpt from An article By Michael wayland mlive.com.
$1.4M in federal grants to help house homeless
By The Associated PressPublished: May 8, 2011 at 7:31 pm
The Maricopa County Association of Governments says it has been awarded $1.4 million in federal grants for three programs that will provide more housing for homeless people.
The grant money comes from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
The county association of governments says the money will provide 52 units of permanent housing for homeless individuals and people in the region.
The group says that overall, more than $219 million has been awarded to providers in the region for more than 56 programs providing transitional housing, permanent supportive housing and supportive services for the homeless.
These are Just two of many examples, Of what Is this Homeless mans opinion a waste of federal funding and in is also simply a way to provide the providers with job security. In the first article which can be found at mlive.com it tells a simple plan to build a permanent supportive housing complex. and pride themselves on the fact that it will house in one bedroom apartment units 155 homeless individuals and its concept also will house a private non-profit organization. No where in the article or in the proposal submitted to HUD for the Grant and public funding received, does it tally the cost as being over 300,000 dollars for each of the 155 1 bedroom units. am I the only one who see’s this and think it to be insanity at it best? I also find no hope in knowing that these are the people who are advocating what is best for the homeless population of this country it is the practice that keeps homeless people homeless and keeps the money flowing.
What I do know that the American people have been deceived in that they freely give these organizations an ability to exploit the largest growing sub sect of the American population today, the homeless and impoverished. and it is done because people think projects like these all across America that are absorbing the funding which should as allocated be going to help these homeless and impoverished peoples of our country.are our best alternative.
What I also know is that I with a 10th grade education and a lifetime of experience as a homeless individual in America, can with my limited knowledge of finance today buy and build a single family dwelling, on a one acre tract of land for less than 60,000 dollars. so where is the logic in spending 300,000 dollars to build a one bedroom apartment in a economically crippled city such as Detroit where as an end result you are placing people at risk because they have now become part of a HUD project, which to date has only served any community in the concentration of impoverished people to a undesirable section of our cities. Hence the term “Projects”
Hud is by practice a defunct and antiquated organization , which has failed the American people by continuing to allow these embedded non-profits to continue to operate devoid of results. For decades. the people most likely to bury their head in the sand and fight the hardest for it are those who along with HUD and Non-profits are those who really just want the homeless population of this country to not be seen or heard from and think this is the best way to achieve that. Me a 50yr old Homeless single male has a better chance of hitting the lottery than I do of ever seeing the inside of a 300,000 one bedroom apartment, And I don’t even buy lotto tickets!!
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Affordable Housing ? Fact or Fiction
To often I have to explain things I say In that I forget I am often addressing people who have never experienced homelessness. And the polarity this life has in compare to that of those people who live inside. I am a blessed man To have been afforded the knowledge of both worlds. I said that I was on the first of every month faced with a deep since of loneliness, I am often saddened by the realization that many of my homeless friends receive some form of income from SSI,SSD,SSDI, Human recourses general assistance grant, and are doing what they do.
Many of these friends Do have addiction problems with drug or alcohol, that I do not deny, I always hold out hope for them when I finally realize it is the First of the month and the herd is thinning, that I might in my next hearing of them find they are taking steps to get out of this drudgery. and usually found to be disappointed in that when the money is gone they are back on the streets. I am always questioning the practice that Has taken place since the early 1990’s of federal Government through the social security administration, made available for anyone with an addiction problem the ability to get paid for your addiction, and the reasoning behind Giving a junkie a 700dollor check on the first of every month, My grief comes from knowing that all across this country amongst the men and women I live with some of them are not going to survive the next few days. Because of this practice. But Knowing That for them There is no available alternative.
I do understand that on the first of the month when they get money it is the few days in their lives that they are afforded the comfort and the dignity that most people not living a day to day existence can ever understand as most people don’t know what it is like to be degraded or refused service at a fast food restaurant, because they need a shower or clean clothes. So for this few days they try to live lives like others they get a motel room and as checkout day draws closer the depression they face knowing that soon they will be back to the harsh reality of the streets and fell it is somehow their fault that there is something wrong with them, Because the money they received is gone. They feel this way because this is what they are told and its wrong. yes they get a check and yes they spent it on motels and being what others told them they needed to be to be normal.
The inherent problem with this cycle is this the money most receive, is not ever going to get them off of the streets because there is not in this country the availability of affordable housing, and people are confused to what affordable housing is and here is a news flash affordable housing does not mean section 8. affordable housing means that tomorrow I could go to work as even a greeter at your local wal-mart and rent a home for the pittance I receive. It is not going to happen, I would have to work a 126hr work week at minimum wage to rent a place of my own. There is no way one can do it for the amount they receive from Social Security, So God Bless My Homeless Friends In there Week Of Humanity Because Next week They Must Again Come back out here and face Mans Inhumanity To Man. On these Street.
Many of these friends Do have addiction problems with drug or alcohol, that I do not deny, I always hold out hope for them when I finally realize it is the First of the month and the herd is thinning, that I might in my next hearing of them find they are taking steps to get out of this drudgery. and usually found to be disappointed in that when the money is gone they are back on the streets. I am always questioning the practice that Has taken place since the early 1990’s of federal Government through the social security administration, made available for anyone with an addiction problem the ability to get paid for your addiction, and the reasoning behind Giving a junkie a 700dollor check on the first of every month, My grief comes from knowing that all across this country amongst the men and women I live with some of them are not going to survive the next few days. Because of this practice. But Knowing That for them There is no available alternative.
I do understand that on the first of the month when they get money it is the few days in their lives that they are afforded the comfort and the dignity that most people not living a day to day existence can ever understand as most people don’t know what it is like to be degraded or refused service at a fast food restaurant, because they need a shower or clean clothes. So for this few days they try to live lives like others they get a motel room and as checkout day draws closer the depression they face knowing that soon they will be back to the harsh reality of the streets and fell it is somehow their fault that there is something wrong with them, Because the money they received is gone. They feel this way because this is what they are told and its wrong. yes they get a check and yes they spent it on motels and being what others told them they needed to be to be normal.
The inherent problem with this cycle is this the money most receive, is not ever going to get them off of the streets because there is not in this country the availability of affordable housing, and people are confused to what affordable housing is and here is a news flash affordable housing does not mean section 8. affordable housing means that tomorrow I could go to work as even a greeter at your local wal-mart and rent a home for the pittance I receive. It is not going to happen, I would have to work a 126hr work week at minimum wage to rent a place of my own. There is no way one can do it for the amount they receive from Social Security, So God Bless My Homeless Friends In there Week Of Humanity Because Next week They Must Again Come back out here and face Mans Inhumanity To Man. On these Street.
Monday, May 2, 2011
Celebrating The Death Of Osama Bin Laden..
I am this day amazed at how people calling themselves Christian Can Come together and Praise The killing of another. according to the whole of Christendom people are speaking about how he deserved to die for His crimes and For the lives He took it seems that the biggest crime committed is overshadowed by others desire to come out on top in this world to have their actions overlooked as less than that of their fellow man. Know that Osama Bin Laden Has this day been as some would say brought to Justice.
Where will Our Justice come from? what Have we done that would reserve for us a different Judgment do we Know the hearts of Men and Do we stand in Judgment over them and take the Place of a Loving merciful God Do we now dictate the will of God as It pertains to others What is it that Makes one mans sin greater than Others are we not all deserving of Justice. Where you not there in your sin driving the nails into the hands and feet of our Lord, were you not present when He was pierced by the sword, did He not ask Father to forgive them that they knew not what they do. And Did He not say unto us all to Love Thine enemies and to pray for them.
There are Men and Women of all faith’s that have by the evil that is in this world and the slavery and oppression of their people done horrific things and been deceived in that all they did they did believing as if it were unto God. The greatest atrocity ever to have been faced by man was done out of ignorance as we see today by people believing that God is on their side and it has been so since the beginning of Mans Rule over Man, always Knowing God is on their side. The Christian Crusades killed millions done so to bring the world to God! And the world is No closer to God than The day we were pitted against each other by the ruler of this world. It is A Christians Duty to seek out the truth of what Gods word has for them, and it is not an instruction manual to act as The Harbinger of Justice for God. God Is In us all The Christian The Muslim The Buddhist All Of Us Yes even Osama Bin Laden Are creatures and the creation of the most High God, Yes even those who do not believe in God, Are His creation!
Satan Is the ruler Of this world It Is This, That keeps Men fighting Over Who’s God Is greater and Men and women Who are Faithful People refuse to see that the worlds standard is not the standard of God, The world Is under the rule of Satan and I see it at work everywhere. I Ask Myself Often Why do others Not see it? Why They Do not is because they follow blind Guides Pastors Preachers Monks Teachers who Are now praising The death Of a Man as the work of God. The God I serve Is A God Of Life, So I pray for all and Of my Faith, I pray the Most for them who Proclaim To know My Lord, See that It was Times like these that He said Of which If You Love not Your Neighbor Wherefore is the Love of God In you! Pray for Your enemies!
Man May Proclaim Acting Out of Goodness, But Know You to Brothers and Sisters You Also Where at one Time At Enmity With God. And It was Not In your Power To Change It We all at a Time stood in Danger of This Judgment.
Where will Our Justice come from? what Have we done that would reserve for us a different Judgment do we Know the hearts of Men and Do we stand in Judgment over them and take the Place of a Loving merciful God Do we now dictate the will of God as It pertains to others What is it that Makes one mans sin greater than Others are we not all deserving of Justice. Where you not there in your sin driving the nails into the hands and feet of our Lord, were you not present when He was pierced by the sword, did He not ask Father to forgive them that they knew not what they do. And Did He not say unto us all to Love Thine enemies and to pray for them.
There are Men and Women of all faith’s that have by the evil that is in this world and the slavery and oppression of their people done horrific things and been deceived in that all they did they did believing as if it were unto God. The greatest atrocity ever to have been faced by man was done out of ignorance as we see today by people believing that God is on their side and it has been so since the beginning of Mans Rule over Man, always Knowing God is on their side. The Christian Crusades killed millions done so to bring the world to God! And the world is No closer to God than The day we were pitted against each other by the ruler of this world. It is A Christians Duty to seek out the truth of what Gods word has for them, and it is not an instruction manual to act as The Harbinger of Justice for God. God Is In us all The Christian The Muslim The Buddhist All Of Us Yes even Osama Bin Laden Are creatures and the creation of the most High God, Yes even those who do not believe in God, Are His creation!
Satan Is the ruler Of this world It Is This, That keeps Men fighting Over Who’s God Is greater and Men and women Who are Faithful People refuse to see that the worlds standard is not the standard of God, The world Is under the rule of Satan and I see it at work everywhere. I Ask Myself Often Why do others Not see it? Why They Do not is because they follow blind Guides Pastors Preachers Monks Teachers who Are now praising The death Of a Man as the work of God. The God I serve Is A God Of Life, So I pray for all and Of my Faith, I pray the Most for them who Proclaim To know My Lord, See that It was Times like these that He said Of which If You Love not Your Neighbor Wherefore is the Love of God In you! Pray for Your enemies!
Man May Proclaim Acting Out of Goodness, But Know You to Brothers and Sisters You Also Where at one Time At Enmity With God. And It was Not In your Power To Change It We all at a Time stood in Danger of This Judgment.
Sunday, May 1, 2011
I Had Hope,Where there is none.
I am as you know a harsh critic of Homeless Help organizations and often those that espouse their belief’s in them, I have been often chastised by others for my unyielding belief that the, people who are most credited for doing the most good are the ones doing the most damage to myself and to others like me. I read at least once a week that there is some new group or agency or person who for the sake of the homeless will venture out into the night and spend it sleeping rough like so many of us homeless do. God bless you for your efforts but know you in no way are drawing awareness to the problem it is one that everyone is well aware of. If you would like to draw awareness to something figure out a way to draw awareness to the fact that Nothing is being done, with the millions and millions of dollars allocated to the problem.
There is by no small chance a great number of us homeless people who are not a part of the shelter system which we now have it affords one with very little human dignity and is a failed system which a man must first forego his belief’s and his dignity for even the simplest of services, A shower food or A bed. The same view is held of Help services in general because this is often the case, Rather than give the person needing the help the choice or freedom to make decisions for themselves we rather make their life decisions for them and tell them this is what is best for you! And for this and the unyielding belief that it is what is best for everyone that we model our outreach efforts.
But It is in its present form what we have, I am sickened by the fact that people say affront we must change this we must do something new and innovative we must do the new best thing we have deemed as best for them and in that they are praised. I am by far not a stupid man. My only stupidity lies in the fact that I honestly have believed in telling people look the people who are saying, look what we are now doing, they keep doing the same thing They profit from the homeless people. often I have often been asked how can men profit from the homeless? I have explained it in almost everyway I know how. and have reveled to people that it is done by the same people over and over in the form of federal block grants and community development grants. I don’t care if you change your organizations name on an annual basis rather than every four six or ten year period. Since the modeling of the shelter system and the move into the supportive housing industry, which took place some years ago 1990-1996 and the inception of the 10yr plan to end homelessness thru supportive housing, the homeless men women and children of this country have been used as a form of tax credits for non-profit corporations.
I also contend there is no such thing as a non profit organization. If these people continue to be allowed to operate and to absorb the public funding and the private sector donations the problem will continue and these organizations will be allowed to continue to thrive every year building some grand new office complex or some grand by design 200 bed temporary shelter and the population of homeless men women and children will continue to grow at an exponential rate. I do know that there are many people who are reading this that are in know way thoughtless people I know that anyone can look into what is being done and see for themselves the truth, However it does not happen people continue to sing the praises of these organizations who by there own admission for the past 2 decades have been trying their next housing model and in no way changing their approach to the problem, I am Just tired folks I have Tried To reach just one person that might hear my plea, and in my endeavors I have failed.
All the love in the world can not fix the problem we are faced with, we are faced with the lie That what is being done is something that has not been done before. And to those who have not been in some way associated with the homeless help industry for the past 2 decades it is something new to someone who has been around homelessness most of their adult life it is the repackaging of a system of failure. And believe Me when I say it is not a failure to help me, As Far as Homeless men women and children are concerned it is expected, and Yes a select few individuals have been helped by these organizations the overwhelming rate of failure does not warrant following there 16yr old model of housing first it is by far more costly and more ineffective than the failed shelter system we had before this homes for all model we now are letting absorb all of the allocated budget. The funding is now being absorbed by organizations like as a for instance 100k homes while many of you sing their praise or path achieves, or pathways to housings or common grounds, know that you do so at The peril of the homeless.
100k homes has sense this past June housed approximately 8000 individuals, and at what cost? the millions of dollars spent in so doing from allocations of federal money and private sector donations has never been discussed in a manner of accountability. ask yourself should we continue to fund a organization who by there own admission are looking to help the most at risk individuals. this is nothing new in this industry, and to continue to fund this or any organizations that believes a less than 19% SUCCESS RATE. Is in an of itself successful.
But I digress I am tired and I have come to care deeply about some of you that really do wish to help people like Me. I only Pray you Wake from your slumber and question their plan and rate of success. and For the others like me there may yet be hope. For me there is none.
There is by no small chance a great number of us homeless people who are not a part of the shelter system which we now have it affords one with very little human dignity and is a failed system which a man must first forego his belief’s and his dignity for even the simplest of services, A shower food or A bed. The same view is held of Help services in general because this is often the case, Rather than give the person needing the help the choice or freedom to make decisions for themselves we rather make their life decisions for them and tell them this is what is best for you! And for this and the unyielding belief that it is what is best for everyone that we model our outreach efforts.
But It is in its present form what we have, I am sickened by the fact that people say affront we must change this we must do something new and innovative we must do the new best thing we have deemed as best for them and in that they are praised. I am by far not a stupid man. My only stupidity lies in the fact that I honestly have believed in telling people look the people who are saying, look what we are now doing, they keep doing the same thing They profit from the homeless people. often I have often been asked how can men profit from the homeless? I have explained it in almost everyway I know how. and have reveled to people that it is done by the same people over and over in the form of federal block grants and community development grants. I don’t care if you change your organizations name on an annual basis rather than every four six or ten year period. Since the modeling of the shelter system and the move into the supportive housing industry, which took place some years ago 1990-1996 and the inception of the 10yr plan to end homelessness thru supportive housing, the homeless men women and children of this country have been used as a form of tax credits for non-profit corporations.
I also contend there is no such thing as a non profit organization. If these people continue to be allowed to operate and to absorb the public funding and the private sector donations the problem will continue and these organizations will be allowed to continue to thrive every year building some grand new office complex or some grand by design 200 bed temporary shelter and the population of homeless men women and children will continue to grow at an exponential rate. I do know that there are many people who are reading this that are in know way thoughtless people I know that anyone can look into what is being done and see for themselves the truth, However it does not happen people continue to sing the praises of these organizations who by there own admission for the past 2 decades have been trying their next housing model and in no way changing their approach to the problem, I am Just tired folks I have Tried To reach just one person that might hear my plea, and in my endeavors I have failed.
All the love in the world can not fix the problem we are faced with, we are faced with the lie That what is being done is something that has not been done before. And to those who have not been in some way associated with the homeless help industry for the past 2 decades it is something new to someone who has been around homelessness most of their adult life it is the repackaging of a system of failure. And believe Me when I say it is not a failure to help me, As Far as Homeless men women and children are concerned it is expected, and Yes a select few individuals have been helped by these organizations the overwhelming rate of failure does not warrant following there 16yr old model of housing first it is by far more costly and more ineffective than the failed shelter system we had before this homes for all model we now are letting absorb all of the allocated budget. The funding is now being absorbed by organizations like as a for instance 100k homes while many of you sing their praise or path achieves, or pathways to housings or common grounds, know that you do so at The peril of the homeless.
100k homes has sense this past June housed approximately 8000 individuals, and at what cost? the millions of dollars spent in so doing from allocations of federal money and private sector donations has never been discussed in a manner of accountability. ask yourself should we continue to fund a organization who by there own admission are looking to help the most at risk individuals. this is nothing new in this industry, and to continue to fund this or any organizations that believes a less than 19% SUCCESS RATE. Is in an of itself successful.
But I digress I am tired and I have come to care deeply about some of you that really do wish to help people like Me. I only Pray you Wake from your slumber and question their plan and rate of success. and For the others like me there may yet be hope. For me there is none.
Friday, April 22, 2011
Chronic
The federal government’s definition of chronic homelessness includes homeless individuals with a disabling condition (substance use disorder, serious mental illness, developmental disability, or chronic physical illness or disability) who have been homeless either 1) continuously for one whole year, or 2) four or more times in the past three years.
The above definition of the Chronic Homeless population, by Its own standard lies at the very root of the homeless problem in This country and The continued failure to in any way bring resolve too the problem. The definition first caries with it certain connotations being that anyone experiencing long periods of homelessness are in some manner faced with disabling conditions when the homeless population at large are faced with obstacles that force them to face long periods of either shelter dependency or periods of seeking alternative living arrangements weather they be rough sleeping couch jumping vehicle dwelling or other possibilities. By research done by the Us department of housing and urban development, and the united states Interagency counsel on homelessness, 10 to 20 percent of the homeless population are effected by these disabling conditions.
Of the Homeless populations recent count totals there are still on any given night in America 900 thousand to 2.2 million people homeless in America. Taking these rough figures into account and going to the highest of there totals approximately 440 thousand Homeless individuals in this country are Chronically so. It is believed that the best way to house these individuals is by the model of permanent supportive housing. it being most cost effective, in the case of those needing help in there debilitating conditions. This I also Believe is the best possible solution.
But this is the approach that is used to address the entirety of the homeless population, It forgoes the needs of the other 80% of the homeless population and independent of this model for housing there is no viable alternative available for more cost effective ways to bring stability to peoples lives which might be of a lesser degree. It is an all or nothing approach. And Has for over 2 decades been the Standard of every homeless help organization, and Federally funded community development, or corporate block grant recipient in the help industry.
It is something that Has To this point in History failed It is by far the most costly and most ineffective program ever to have been sponsored by both public and private money, It has to date since it inception in the last 2 decades been funded with government grants alone in excess of over 800billion dollars at the expense of the American tax payer, and is overshadowed by private sector donations, which are estimated annually to surpass Government funding by a margin of 53%.
If at the very best outcome to the solution placed before us with a One Hundred Percent Success rate the model we now work with will at best house only 20% of the homeless individuals in this country, and those are mostly people receiving social security or eligible to receive disability dispersments. many of which have been approved for or started the section 8 housing requirements. We are failing at a level that future generations will look at and will think us mad. But with people who are in this industry the grant writers, the boards of directors the legal teams and the industry heads have much to lose if we seek viable alternatives to a broken system and this is something it seems that no one is willing to address, I would ask everyone interested in helping the homeless please do help stand together and call for accountability of the system which we have and lets rethink the funding of a 20 percent solution, and address the problem in a manner it deserves, where the homeless are no longer blanketed by the guidelines in place and deal with them on a individual basis. Lets try and do something different and innovative lets address the needs of the individual rather than the group, Lets give them what they need and not dictate the need of organizations, lets look at what is going on in this industry and in the looking remember, Failure is Job security for these helpers of Us.
The above definition of the Chronic Homeless population, by Its own standard lies at the very root of the homeless problem in This country and The continued failure to in any way bring resolve too the problem. The definition first caries with it certain connotations being that anyone experiencing long periods of homelessness are in some manner faced with disabling conditions when the homeless population at large are faced with obstacles that force them to face long periods of either shelter dependency or periods of seeking alternative living arrangements weather they be rough sleeping couch jumping vehicle dwelling or other possibilities. By research done by the Us department of housing and urban development, and the united states Interagency counsel on homelessness, 10 to 20 percent of the homeless population are effected by these disabling conditions.
Of the Homeless populations recent count totals there are still on any given night in America 900 thousand to 2.2 million people homeless in America. Taking these rough figures into account and going to the highest of there totals approximately 440 thousand Homeless individuals in this country are Chronically so. It is believed that the best way to house these individuals is by the model of permanent supportive housing. it being most cost effective, in the case of those needing help in there debilitating conditions. This I also Believe is the best possible solution.
But this is the approach that is used to address the entirety of the homeless population, It forgoes the needs of the other 80% of the homeless population and independent of this model for housing there is no viable alternative available for more cost effective ways to bring stability to peoples lives which might be of a lesser degree. It is an all or nothing approach. And Has for over 2 decades been the Standard of every homeless help organization, and Federally funded community development, or corporate block grant recipient in the help industry.
It is something that Has To this point in History failed It is by far the most costly and most ineffective program ever to have been sponsored by both public and private money, It has to date since it inception in the last 2 decades been funded with government grants alone in excess of over 800billion dollars at the expense of the American tax payer, and is overshadowed by private sector donations, which are estimated annually to surpass Government funding by a margin of 53%.
If at the very best outcome to the solution placed before us with a One Hundred Percent Success rate the model we now work with will at best house only 20% of the homeless individuals in this country, and those are mostly people receiving social security or eligible to receive disability dispersments. many of which have been approved for or started the section 8 housing requirements. We are failing at a level that future generations will look at and will think us mad. But with people who are in this industry the grant writers, the boards of directors the legal teams and the industry heads have much to lose if we seek viable alternatives to a broken system and this is something it seems that no one is willing to address, I would ask everyone interested in helping the homeless please do help stand together and call for accountability of the system which we have and lets rethink the funding of a 20 percent solution, and address the problem in a manner it deserves, where the homeless are no longer blanketed by the guidelines in place and deal with them on a individual basis. Lets try and do something different and innovative lets address the needs of the individual rather than the group, Lets give them what they need and not dictate the need of organizations, lets look at what is going on in this industry and in the looking remember, Failure is Job security for these helpers of Us.
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
The Passover Of Joseph Son Of Father.
It is the evening of the Passover and as would have in the Lord’s day have been Custom, I sit and I break Unleavened Bread and I sip of the vine,(welch’s) much unlike Him who came as A Sacrifice for all Mankind Ye’shua, I do it In sadness alone not surrounded by as He many Who were Faithful, in which to break this bread with. Mankind in its haste for this world fail in that they no longer observe God as The father of us all and are lacking in all things pertaining to God.
But This night of the Faith Has In it the very ability to bring a Man closer to the Spirit of Ye’shua For this Night He was Born This Is What he was Born to overcome the death The ultimate Sacrifice that Man Might Be passed over from what God Had Passed on too the world, We all will die But because On this Night The world was set free because before even we were born, He on the Passover was Cast in Chains, And taken Up to Be handed Over Unto the Priest.
He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
Isaiah 53
And He Did come the first time for Me, And will Again Come For me. So I observe this night that In His Sacrifice I might be passed over. I do It in as much as I can silence as the world permits. because many Years ago A great evil took place on this night. and I feel it at work around me each day, and in the actions of my own life there was need for that night. It was me if not but me alone that caused for Him to Be handed Over.
And it came to pass, when Jesus had finished all these sayings, he said unto his disciples,
Ye know that after two days is the feast of the passover, and the Son of man is betrayed to be crucified.
Then assembled together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, unto the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas,
And consulted that they might take Jesus by subtilty, and kill him.
But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar among the people.
Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper,
There came unto him a woman having an alabaster box of very precious ointment, and poured it on his head, as he sat at meat.
But when his disciples saw it, they had indignation, saying, To what purpose is this waste?
For this ointment might have been sold for much, and given to the poor.
When Jesus understood it, he said unto them, Why trouble ye the woman? for she hath wrought a good work upon me.
For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.
For in that she hath poured this ointment on my body, she did it for my burial.
Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached in the whole world, there shall also this, that this woman hath done, be told for a memorial of her.
Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went unto the chief priests,
And said unto them, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver.
And from that time he sought opportunity to betray him.
Now the first day of the feast of unleavened bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying unto him, Where wilt thou that we prepare for thee to eat the passover?
And he said, Go into the city to such a man, and say unto him, The Master saith, My time is at hand; I will keep the passover at thy house with my disciples.
And the disciples did as Jesus had appointed them; and they made ready the passover.
Now when the even was come, he sat down with the twelve.
And as they did eat, he said, Verily I say unto you, that one of you shall betray me.
And they were exceeding sorrowful, and began every one of them to say unto him, Lord, is it I?
And he answered and said, He that dippeth his hand with me in the dish, the same shall betray me.
The Son of man goeth as it is written of him: but woe unto that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! it had been good for that man if he had not been born.
Then Judas, which betrayed him, answered and said, Master, is it I? He said unto him, Thou hast said.
And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body.
And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it;
For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.
But I say unto you, I will not drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father's kingdom.
And when they had sung an hymn, they went out into the mount of Olives.
Then saith Jesus unto them, All ye shall be offended because of me this night: for it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered abroad.
But after I am risen again, I will go before you into Galilee.
Peter answered and said unto him, Though all men shall be offended because of thee, yet will I never be offended.
Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, That this night, before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice.
Peter said unto him, Though I should die with thee, yet will I not deny thee. Likewise also said all the disciples.
Then cometh Jesus with them unto a place called Gethsemane, and saith unto the disciples, Sit ye here, while I go and pray yonder.
And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and very heavy.
Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.
And he went a little further, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt.
And he cometh unto the disciples, and findeth them asleep, and saith unto Peter, What, could ye not watch with me one hour?
Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.
He went away again the second time, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if this cup may not pass away from me, except I drink it, thy will be done.
And he came and found them asleep again: for their eyes were heavy.
And he left them, and went away again, and prayed the third time, saying the same words.
Then cometh he to his disciples, and saith unto them, Sleep on now, and take your rest: behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.
Rise, let us be going: behold, he is at hand that doth betray me.
And while he yet spake, lo, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great multitude with swords and staves, from the chief priests and elders of the people.
Now he that betrayed him gave them a sign, saying, Whomsoever I shall kiss, that same is he: hold him fast.
And forthwith he came to Jesus, and said, Hail, master; and kissed him.
And Jesus said unto him, Friend, wherefore art thou come? Then came they, and laid hands on Jesus, and took him.
And, behold, one of them which were with Jesus stretched out his hand, and drew his sword, and struck a servant of the high priest's, and smote off his ear.
Then said Jesus unto him, Put up again thy sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.
Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels?
But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be?
In that same hour said Jesus to the multitudes, Are ye come out as against a thief with swords and staves for to take me? I sat daily with you teaching in the temple, and ye laid no hold on me.
But all this was done, that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples forsook him, and fled.
And they that had laid hold on Jesus led him away to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were assembled.
But Peter followed him afar off unto the high priest's palace, and went in, and sat with the servants, to see the end.
I like Peter, Have often thought I to could in no way deny Him And Like Peter I in my actions deny Him Daily in my life. I now like peter also watch and I wait to see the end I live by His promise, By him not calling down These Legions From father That I have been Granted this Grace, For while Death may Take Me It will Not reign. I Am A blessed Man That I can ask Lord Forgive Me For I too At Times have followed from Afar Off.
Shalom Joseph.
But This night of the Faith Has In it the very ability to bring a Man closer to the Spirit of Ye’shua For this Night He was Born This Is What he was Born to overcome the death The ultimate Sacrifice that Man Might Be passed over from what God Had Passed on too the world, We all will die But because On this Night The world was set free because before even we were born, He on the Passover was Cast in Chains, And taken Up to Be handed Over Unto the Priest.
He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
Isaiah 53
And He Did come the first time for Me, And will Again Come For me. So I observe this night that In His Sacrifice I might be passed over. I do It in as much as I can silence as the world permits. because many Years ago A great evil took place on this night. and I feel it at work around me each day, and in the actions of my own life there was need for that night. It was me if not but me alone that caused for Him to Be handed Over.
And it came to pass, when Jesus had finished all these sayings, he said unto his disciples,
Ye know that after two days is the feast of the passover, and the Son of man is betrayed to be crucified.
Then assembled together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, unto the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas,
And consulted that they might take Jesus by subtilty, and kill him.
But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar among the people.
Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper,
There came unto him a woman having an alabaster box of very precious ointment, and poured it on his head, as he sat at meat.
But when his disciples saw it, they had indignation, saying, To what purpose is this waste?
For this ointment might have been sold for much, and given to the poor.
When Jesus understood it, he said unto them, Why trouble ye the woman? for she hath wrought a good work upon me.
For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.
For in that she hath poured this ointment on my body, she did it for my burial.
Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached in the whole world, there shall also this, that this woman hath done, be told for a memorial of her.
Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went unto the chief priests,
And said unto them, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver.
And from that time he sought opportunity to betray him.
Now the first day of the feast of unleavened bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying unto him, Where wilt thou that we prepare for thee to eat the passover?
And he said, Go into the city to such a man, and say unto him, The Master saith, My time is at hand; I will keep the passover at thy house with my disciples.
And the disciples did as Jesus had appointed them; and they made ready the passover.
Now when the even was come, he sat down with the twelve.
And as they did eat, he said, Verily I say unto you, that one of you shall betray me.
And they were exceeding sorrowful, and began every one of them to say unto him, Lord, is it I?
And he answered and said, He that dippeth his hand with me in the dish, the same shall betray me.
The Son of man goeth as it is written of him: but woe unto that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! it had been good for that man if he had not been born.
Then Judas, which betrayed him, answered and said, Master, is it I? He said unto him, Thou hast said.
And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body.
And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it;
For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.
But I say unto you, I will not drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father's kingdom.
And when they had sung an hymn, they went out into the mount of Olives.
Then saith Jesus unto them, All ye shall be offended because of me this night: for it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered abroad.
But after I am risen again, I will go before you into Galilee.
Peter answered and said unto him, Though all men shall be offended because of thee, yet will I never be offended.
Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, That this night, before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice.
Peter said unto him, Though I should die with thee, yet will I not deny thee. Likewise also said all the disciples.
Then cometh Jesus with them unto a place called Gethsemane, and saith unto the disciples, Sit ye here, while I go and pray yonder.
And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and very heavy.
Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.
And he went a little further, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt.
And he cometh unto the disciples, and findeth them asleep, and saith unto Peter, What, could ye not watch with me one hour?
Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.
He went away again the second time, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if this cup may not pass away from me, except I drink it, thy will be done.
And he came and found them asleep again: for their eyes were heavy.
And he left them, and went away again, and prayed the third time, saying the same words.
Then cometh he to his disciples, and saith unto them, Sleep on now, and take your rest: behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.
Rise, let us be going: behold, he is at hand that doth betray me.
And while he yet spake, lo, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great multitude with swords and staves, from the chief priests and elders of the people.
Now he that betrayed him gave them a sign, saying, Whomsoever I shall kiss, that same is he: hold him fast.
And forthwith he came to Jesus, and said, Hail, master; and kissed him.
And Jesus said unto him, Friend, wherefore art thou come? Then came they, and laid hands on Jesus, and took him.
And, behold, one of them which were with Jesus stretched out his hand, and drew his sword, and struck a servant of the high priest's, and smote off his ear.
Then said Jesus unto him, Put up again thy sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.
Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels?
But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be?
In that same hour said Jesus to the multitudes, Are ye come out as against a thief with swords and staves for to take me? I sat daily with you teaching in the temple, and ye laid no hold on me.
But all this was done, that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples forsook him, and fled.
And they that had laid hold on Jesus led him away to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were assembled.
But Peter followed him afar off unto the high priest's palace, and went in, and sat with the servants, to see the end.
I like Peter, Have often thought I to could in no way deny Him And Like Peter I in my actions deny Him Daily in my life. I now like peter also watch and I wait to see the end I live by His promise, By him not calling down These Legions From father That I have been Granted this Grace, For while Death may Take Me It will Not reign. I Am A blessed Man That I can ask Lord Forgive Me For I too At Times have followed from Afar Off.
Shalom Joseph.
Thursday, April 14, 2011
The Dog In the Fight Part 2
Part 1 Dog In The Fight
A Un-housed persons paradise, But if you in fact have it in mind that you are going to cook food for anyone who might show up on any given day do not you are going to receive a citation if more than 20 friends show up and you are not certified permitted and blaa blaa blaa, I know I have tried in this very spot and it hasn’t changed much since the building of it in 1981 and hasn’t been because of this ordinance been used much since being built either, It simply Put makes Me sad And we Should tear it out or use it as we will. These laws That Lead people to accept that this is what is best for mankind as a whole, by anyone who believes to know, what is best for us all, are the very core of what is the enabling factor in the funding of those pushing society in this direction of reliance on others opinion as to the course of ones life.
So you see I have a dog in this fight as well as any fight pertaining to the eradication of homelessness while myself not in any hope of becoming a man who lives in a house there are many hopes for this epidemic which we face the first being the homeless persons ability to have the opportunity afforded any other person and that being to live a life that is unfettered by the common practice to make acts like cooking or sleeping or surviving against the law, and something that with no forethought is instituted in our best interest.
If A person acts as a voice of the homeless but lives in their denial as to what we ourselves deem to be our best interest as meaningless and a inconsequential, I simply question as I always will the purity of their motives. There are men in this industry who truly believe they know what is best suited for me. the very thought that because I am a homeless man I somehow fall into this umbrella of help spread before me. and any question on my need is overshadowed by my perceived need. I am never asked about what I hope for myself and must live in the hopes that others have for me.
The laws that have sprung up all over this county exist for one reason alone to force me to receive the direction that men deem as the best course for a man like me or face suffrage outside of the system they have used to continue making me less proactive in my well being. If not for the dictates of others I would have years ago, been off of the streets but in everyone's efforts to house the homeless no one has ever asked before there actions, How can we help you? it is always rather this is your need we can try to help you to achieve! The laws against me cooking sleeping salvaging surviving is merely to force me to accept what others see as the best course for me. to support laws that make my life one of lawlessness, only achieves one thing, to alienate me, and to make any supporter of them suspect as to serving their purpose and not mine. Thank you for the Help the Help you give will soon legislate me out of existence and the problem will be solved. So How could I not embrace the voice You have for me?
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Who’s Side Are You On? ( Or the Dog In The Fight)
"Appeal court supports Orlando's restrictions on feeding the homeless in city parks http://ow.ly/4yZRf / GOOD! I support such legislation”
Mark Horvath
The result of such legislation, spoken from a man who experiences it, Leads me to wonder why someone who claims to be fighting the good fight and giving me a voice would support such legislation, and lead me also to ask who’s side are you really on but as many of you are aware I ask this question of all those who stand by the embedded system of help which has been established in helping men like me.
so I am not found in shock or in awe nor in any way am I surprised. at statements Like these, by anyone in the “industry” as It is called by homeless advocacy Groups.
Mattie McVey Lord, Scott Griessel, meet Mark. Mark is a national social media guru in our industry. Are you willing to share your pictures beyond FB?
Mark Horvath HA! thanks Mattie
my interest here is to help 51 Homes, and any story that is posted on FB only is shared to a closed group. Posting outside of FB (where anyone even if they are not a friend/like can see) is where you find growth and impact.
I would not be honest in that this conversation between people who want to give me a voice would take place and clearly point out that the advocate for me has a conflict of interest which is most often the case, as Often the homeless need for help differs from that of there lifelines to what they might receive.
I am faced with living in a city where the parks have BBQ pits big enough to roast a side of beef and a small farm yard menagerie. The endless possibilities, however even for a homeless person these pits sit in the city park as if to mock us and to rob from us our hope of independence to have a better way to co-exist in this society, because if you cook something and more than 20 of your homeless friends show up you are in violation of a long list of ordinance. So because of legislation like Orlando's men can continue to be forced to receive help from the dictations of the highly funded failures of the system which pass these ordinances, rather than unite in their struggle to overcome this oppressive existence. We will Give you food stamps but the first time you gather to feed your friends you will be sited for your disobedience. Why I refuse to get food stamps in the giving them to me they where simply setting me up to build a cookfire and this is a lawless act.
I was Blessed in that I experienced food not bombs when they where a bunch of young kids living a lawless life and showing up with food hot and for all and they would have to feed and run literally because they where wanted men and women some persecuted to the point of arrest for giving away food served regardless of legislation. And the beauty of it all was they would serve you no matter what you showed up as a drunk a drug addict, all where received openly as A hungry person.
The problem advocates have with feeding the homeless outside of the system is not one of a health concern as they have for decades used to champion their cause we just want what's best for you. But one of fear If You are allowed To do the smallest thing in their industry you may go on to change the lives of men and woman who are the very core of their existence. If People are not forced to Go to them for help Than they will no longer be needed. so the result is idle Parks With the capability of bringing people together in their compassion, and a common belief that they are of Value to each other . And this is what we are forced to indure
http://orlandofoodnotbombs.org/sylvialane.html
When you say we are going to stop you feeding them did you ever think, maybe we should ask them if they want to eat these peoples food, do not tell me I must only eat from the plate of oppression, and I as A homeless man who lives with homeless men and woman will tell you In the homeless community many of us would ask stop your advocating for the homeless your ignorance of us is killing us, so keep your feigned understanding of us and what we need and want where it belongs in your opinion. because before you outlaw someone feeding me ask me if I want to eat their Hot meal.
Mark Horvath
The result of such legislation, spoken from a man who experiences it, Leads me to wonder why someone who claims to be fighting the good fight and giving me a voice would support such legislation, and lead me also to ask who’s side are you really on but as many of you are aware I ask this question of all those who stand by the embedded system of help which has been established in helping men like me.
so I am not found in shock or in awe nor in any way am I surprised. at statements Like these, by anyone in the “industry” as It is called by homeless advocacy Groups.
Mattie McVey Lord, Scott Griessel, meet Mark. Mark is a national social media guru in our industry. Are you willing to share your pictures beyond FB?
Mark Horvath HA! thanks Mattie
my interest here is to help 51 Homes, and any story that is posted on FB only is shared to a closed group. Posting outside of FB (where anyone even if they are not a friend/like can see) is where you find growth and impact.
I would not be honest in that this conversation between people who want to give me a voice would take place and clearly point out that the advocate for me has a conflict of interest which is most often the case, as Often the homeless need for help differs from that of there lifelines to what they might receive.
I am faced with living in a city where the parks have BBQ pits big enough to roast a side of beef and a small farm yard menagerie. The endless possibilities, however even for a homeless person these pits sit in the city park as if to mock us and to rob from us our hope of independence to have a better way to co-exist in this society, because if you cook something and more than 20 of your homeless friends show up you are in violation of a long list of ordinance. So because of legislation like Orlando's men can continue to be forced to receive help from the dictations of the highly funded failures of the system which pass these ordinances, rather than unite in their struggle to overcome this oppressive existence. We will Give you food stamps but the first time you gather to feed your friends you will be sited for your disobedience. Why I refuse to get food stamps in the giving them to me they where simply setting me up to build a cookfire and this is a lawless act.
I was Blessed in that I experienced food not bombs when they where a bunch of young kids living a lawless life and showing up with food hot and for all and they would have to feed and run literally because they where wanted men and women some persecuted to the point of arrest for giving away food served regardless of legislation. And the beauty of it all was they would serve you no matter what you showed up as a drunk a drug addict, all where received openly as A hungry person.
The problem advocates have with feeding the homeless outside of the system is not one of a health concern as they have for decades used to champion their cause we just want what's best for you. But one of fear If You are allowed To do the smallest thing in their industry you may go on to change the lives of men and woman who are the very core of their existence. If People are not forced to Go to them for help Than they will no longer be needed. so the result is idle Parks With the capability of bringing people together in their compassion, and a common belief that they are of Value to each other . And this is what we are forced to indure
http://orlandofoodnotbombs.org/sylvialane.html
When you say we are going to stop you feeding them did you ever think, maybe we should ask them if they want to eat these peoples food, do not tell me I must only eat from the plate of oppression, and I as A homeless man who lives with homeless men and woman will tell you In the homeless community many of us would ask stop your advocating for the homeless your ignorance of us is killing us, so keep your feigned understanding of us and what we need and want where it belongs in your opinion. because before you outlaw someone feeding me ask me if I want to eat their Hot meal.
Saturday, April 9, 2011
Homeless Solution? Not What We Think!
I would like to clarify a statement made in My last Post for Leading anyone to believe That I was going to stop blogging about homelessness, And I was What I thought to be clear Not going to blog about it as if it was a problem that Has a solution as one that is solvable, Because I do not believe that to be the truth I do Not Believe There to be a solution to the simplest problem first and foremost because we do not live in a society where men are acknowledged as having a universal right as being human to have a safe place to dwell and to shelter Himself from the elements and finding comfort and not being a Human right where it is the right of all we will always see homes comfort and shelter from the elements Lorded over Others That they might be bent to the will of those That have chose to hold these Human rights Hostage.
Hence it is in its Present state not a solvable issue! That However Is not for me the end of it, Because there Are people whom there very well being depend on the availability of housing weather they can afford it or not. there lives depend on it.
I am Blessed that I have friends that I can converse with that bring to me a great deal of clarity on many issues, The biggest of which for me is bringing me to the realization that I am not a man of by any stretch of the imagination an educated man. That doesn’t bother me because, It doesn’t take educated people to realize that as a society what we are doing is not working. while yes things are at times getting better for some the mass of people on this planet suffer from abject poverty, Not brain science I don’t care if you have the latest I phone and all its apps If people go to bed Hungry, in the country which you live or if people go to bed at night without one of their own to sleep in, we Yes we You and I and all of those around us have that day Failed.
Hence it is in its Present state not a solvable issue! That However Is not for me the end of it, Because there Are people whom there very well being depend on the availability of housing weather they can afford it or not. there lives depend on it.
I am Blessed that I have friends that I can converse with that bring to me a great deal of clarity on many issues, The biggest of which for me is bringing me to the realization that I am not a man of by any stretch of the imagination an educated man. That doesn’t bother me because, It doesn’t take educated people to realize that as a society what we are doing is not working. while yes things are at times getting better for some the mass of people on this planet suffer from abject poverty, Not brain science I don’t care if you have the latest I phone and all its apps If people go to bed Hungry, in the country which you live or if people go to bed at night without one of their own to sleep in, we Yes we You and I and all of those around us have that day Failed.
I was recently called on the fact, and lost a friend over my outspokenness on this very subject the homeless issue, I would like everyone who remains as my friend and to those I have lost friend and family, to Know my passion on this subject runs deep, It is my Life and my life's experience, That is the sum of what I have to go on. I Said some time ago I would not apologize for myself on this subject and I have found myself doing so often because I care about offending people to whom I meant in no way to them personally an offence, I do not wish to lose friends over it. But I will not stand quietly and watch as people continue down the same path of achieving their goals as to a solution, without ever having listened to the answer given when asking what might we do to help you achieve. And then hand unto them, well we will do this for you because this is by far your greatest need. In asking people what do you need it is generally a simple thing they want to feel like they are achieving there goals to a better life not always a house, or things that others perceive as needs some might see as desires or excesses I have the simplest of lives like many in my position I have often said I am a man not homeless just devoid of a house I want my homelessness to end also But not in the same terms as others I want it to end by the recognition of the fact that me not having a house does not make me homeless, the laws that say I can not live in a tent or A what would by some be deemed as a Recreational Vehicle others a mansion, or a mountain meadow in the middle of nowhere because it is simply against the law. to stand and say To someone for you we perceive a better way. Is both oppression and the single most funded failed social experiment on the face of the planet. I am overwhelmed by the reality of the Number of people that continue to come forward time after time and saying we know A house would best stop your homelessness. and get paid huge amounts of money to say this. What I guess I am saying is If you want to make a change, change the way you think, Do not fund people to set Goals for the homeless and the less fortunate your funding,time effort and compassion would be better spent helping them achieve the goals they already have, Not giving thought to what your goals are for them. May you all on this Sabbath Be Blessed!
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Please Ask Something!
I Have after Much consideration and Being willing to except advice from close friends Decided that yes I will no Longer Blog On the Issues Of Homelessness as A solvable problem. I will No Longer continue To warn people of the dangers of Continuing On our present course.
I have found That No matter What A person Reveals to Others that There are those who just refuse to hear, And I after having made friends once again in this field, or people whom I would have liked to have thought as to befriending me It appears that all things are not always as they seem. Let me however Explain that I am An Intelligent articulate man and Had I too wanted to take advantage of the system we Now Have in Place I could have long ago been in a Housing unit somewhere. Many think and have said as much to me that My refusal to accept the help that is offered from these so called homeless help organizations that you people are so proud to spout the recent efforts of, Yes because Of my Refusal to accept this help I have been Viewed As One suffering from delusion.
But I myself do not believe and also believe it to be part of the problem that we as Men Or women Who came to a place in our lives where we need ask for a little help must forego any morals or values we might have to accept this help. when In fact the help should come in a more moralistic and valued form and men should be able to have a say as to what form it comes and not have it dictated to them by someone who has quite often never experienced the need. I am not talking about the Mother with a small child who meets you at the receptionist desk in their office but the men and women who set policy and administer funds for these organizations. The Men and women Who have it in their power to dictate their administration of these so called services.
so while yes I could at anytime become like others and I could embed myself in this system and exploit the available services offered, I would however in doing so have to sacrifice my own morals and values and Would only then be contributing to the further exploitation of my fellow man. and My refusal to do this has somehow become viewed as a fault. If it is a fault than so be it, I can not accept help from the same people who for years has made themselves and all of their board members Rich from the misery of others, it only lends to the furtherance of their unchecked ability to exploit a system and a sub sect of society. But I am Of A mind Now that I am dealing with people who Either Don’t care Or are indwelled with a great indifference. To the reality that these people do not now or have they ever had the interest of the homeless person or the American Tax payer in mind.
I am grieved that people who say we need to do something about this problem, continue on in the steed of those that came before them and are so hard pressed to see things for what they really are. to me what we are continuing to do is madness! and it is on this that I stand and for this reason that I have again come to the point of no longer wanting to be found exposing these people for who they really are because you all simply don’t care I do however know that history will bear itself out and a time will come when these people will no longer be able to drink from the public troth, a time will come when Men will stand and say we can no longer fund these endeavors. I only wish that that time would have reveled itself to us before hand and that we could have together stood for something that would have effected great change but I hold no hope for the future of the problem at hand men are today profiting from those less fortunate and good men and women because of their unyielding belief that it is what is best for others continue on in this downward spiral of oppression.
But as the fight is no longer In me I must digress, You have had over me a great victory in that My voice is falling on ears that will not hear. I can no longer fight against my oppressors I will remove myself willingly from this fight And Gladly so. But I do hope that one person will take up the fight as It is not in me anymore. I pray for you that you seek and find what is true and what is reality of the problem, But as I said I have no hope for the future. For those of you who are my friends I thank you and God bless you. And for those of you who are by your efforts continuing in this system of oppression, may you one day see that what You have been told is true that you are simply a tool for the oppressor, I pray for you most because I fear you must be deceived as I can not see that so many are blind as to their efforts.
I ask one last thing from those that read this blog before you give your efforts, your time, your money, your compassion, please look at who it is who receives your praise. and ask yourself are they really who they say they are or are they only as good as there present funding drive and PR campaign? Ask what Have they done that was effective in the last 10yrs? do they continue to change their focus to keep you from seeing the results of their past efforts? have they already received millions of dollars and failed in their efforts? Have they been successful in their past efforts? do they change tactics to receive more funding? But please for the sake of others Like myself ask Something, That They Might have some hope for the future. As I do Not!
I have found That No matter What A person Reveals to Others that There are those who just refuse to hear, And I after having made friends once again in this field, or people whom I would have liked to have thought as to befriending me It appears that all things are not always as they seem. Let me however Explain that I am An Intelligent articulate man and Had I too wanted to take advantage of the system we Now Have in Place I could have long ago been in a Housing unit somewhere. Many think and have said as much to me that My refusal to accept the help that is offered from these so called homeless help organizations that you people are so proud to spout the recent efforts of, Yes because Of my Refusal to accept this help I have been Viewed As One suffering from delusion.
But I myself do not believe and also believe it to be part of the problem that we as Men Or women Who came to a place in our lives where we need ask for a little help must forego any morals or values we might have to accept this help. when In fact the help should come in a more moralistic and valued form and men should be able to have a say as to what form it comes and not have it dictated to them by someone who has quite often never experienced the need. I am not talking about the Mother with a small child who meets you at the receptionist desk in their office but the men and women who set policy and administer funds for these organizations. The Men and women Who have it in their power to dictate their administration of these so called services.
so while yes I could at anytime become like others and I could embed myself in this system and exploit the available services offered, I would however in doing so have to sacrifice my own morals and values and Would only then be contributing to the further exploitation of my fellow man. and My refusal to do this has somehow become viewed as a fault. If it is a fault than so be it, I can not accept help from the same people who for years has made themselves and all of their board members Rich from the misery of others, it only lends to the furtherance of their unchecked ability to exploit a system and a sub sect of society. But I am Of A mind Now that I am dealing with people who Either Don’t care Or are indwelled with a great indifference. To the reality that these people do not now or have they ever had the interest of the homeless person or the American Tax payer in mind.
I am grieved that people who say we need to do something about this problem, continue on in the steed of those that came before them and are so hard pressed to see things for what they really are. to me what we are continuing to do is madness! and it is on this that I stand and for this reason that I have again come to the point of no longer wanting to be found exposing these people for who they really are because you all simply don’t care I do however know that history will bear itself out and a time will come when these people will no longer be able to drink from the public troth, a time will come when Men will stand and say we can no longer fund these endeavors. I only wish that that time would have reveled itself to us before hand and that we could have together stood for something that would have effected great change but I hold no hope for the future of the problem at hand men are today profiting from those less fortunate and good men and women because of their unyielding belief that it is what is best for others continue on in this downward spiral of oppression.
But as the fight is no longer In me I must digress, You have had over me a great victory in that My voice is falling on ears that will not hear. I can no longer fight against my oppressors I will remove myself willingly from this fight And Gladly so. But I do hope that one person will take up the fight as It is not in me anymore. I pray for you that you seek and find what is true and what is reality of the problem, But as I said I have no hope for the future. For those of you who are my friends I thank you and God bless you. And for those of you who are by your efforts continuing in this system of oppression, may you one day see that what You have been told is true that you are simply a tool for the oppressor, I pray for you most because I fear you must be deceived as I can not see that so many are blind as to their efforts.
I ask one last thing from those that read this blog before you give your efforts, your time, your money, your compassion, please look at who it is who receives your praise. and ask yourself are they really who they say they are or are they only as good as there present funding drive and PR campaign? Ask what Have they done that was effective in the last 10yrs? do they continue to change their focus to keep you from seeing the results of their past efforts? have they already received millions of dollars and failed in their efforts? Have they been successful in their past efforts? do they change tactics to receive more funding? But please for the sake of others Like myself ask Something, That They Might have some hope for the future. As I do Not!
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Sorry I couldn’t Help!
I have wrestled with the why of Doing what It Is I do? I was Judged as Only doing this for the Drama Of It I was Accused of one being so out of touch with reality. That I was not worth talking to, So I say to You all You can Have And worship these homeless advocates and the people they are advocating for but know that as I have told you before and the words went unheeded, It is to no benefit to the homeless any organization that can continue to take from the tax payers of this country millions and millions of dollars every year and shout from the rooftops oh what great thing we have done look at us and brag of the 100’s and not thousands of people they saved with these millions than you need to understand it is these organizations that you are advocating for and not me, or Men Like me, Have at it but stop saying you are advocating for the homeless.
Because you are advocating for the exploitation of these people like me. Sorry I was unable to help.
I wished truly I could have made People to see what is being done now is nothing different than was done before and the current system is not working! Just a new round of ringers in the game and while it is My life that is in the balance, I fear again as Years Past I will be dismissed in that How could I a Homeless Man know anything? To me it is My life and the lives of others I fight for. And I am sure of only one thing The billions they have received over the past 2 decades have been ineffectual for one reason and one only and that being these organizations are feeding from the public troth and will continue until the food runs out.there is no motivation to fix the problem because as long as the homeless are here they will continue to profit from us.
To those of you whom Live homeless lives I am sorry you are at the mercy of the same people who have been at the helm for all this time for you I see no end in site.
Because you are advocating for the exploitation of these people like me. Sorry I was unable to help.
I wished truly I could have made People to see what is being done now is nothing different than was done before and the current system is not working! Just a new round of ringers in the game and while it is My life that is in the balance, I fear again as Years Past I will be dismissed in that How could I a Homeless Man know anything? To me it is My life and the lives of others I fight for. And I am sure of only one thing The billions they have received over the past 2 decades have been ineffectual for one reason and one only and that being these organizations are feeding from the public troth and will continue until the food runs out.there is no motivation to fix the problem because as long as the homeless are here they will continue to profit from us.
To those of you whom Live homeless lives I am sorry you are at the mercy of the same people who have been at the helm for all this time for you I see no end in site.
Sunday, March 27, 2011
To Truly Be A Great Man.
Every man Must Himself choose What path in this life He is going to travel, I have chosen mine and I am on that path with no regrets. I as Other men who have come before me have a deep sense of satisfaction with knowing that am being true to myself and true to those principles and Ideals That I myself have come to hold as dear to me if only to me.
I am no different than any other man, I believe that the truth’s of this life that have been revealed to me are too be shared with others, I believe that they are truth and are common to others if only in the sense that It is by these truths I view the world around me. I make no pretext as to what others should or should not hold dear, yet as A man I share what I know and It is theirs to accept or in their own life reject as being true for Me their accepting or not is of no effect as to my beliefs.
There are truth’s that are universal to Men, some would argue even that. And with me they have to no avail The simplest being we are all born and on that day we begin our journey towards death which we shall all meet in the end. So be it, If in this fact alone we be bound together we are no longer independent fully one from another. This alone should draw Men together that It may draw them too Help and to nurture those in with whom they are found to be sharing this brief moment in time called life along the path, to the place where we as Human beings are all too once more become Equal. My greatest fear Is God as To my faith, as to the things of this life, it is that Men may only again find this commonality only in death. and not along this path. I often Pray it not be so.
I have with others often became embattled with the struggles we face when in opposition to my beliefs, when I find them imposing themselves on others or by dictate or mandate of those weaker than themselves, the abundance of this life that is to be available for all, they withhold or they by design use them to control Men.
This Is the very spirit of exploitation which I have taken upon myself to fight against. when Men By usury of others needs hold hostage their human rights, they are damnable indeed I have seen Men Withhold food from others, That they must hear what they place before them as the word of God, This is not the plan of the God I know, The abundance of food on this planet was for all in my Gods plan, And is not something to be used to bend Men to your will. I have seen Men forced to sleep in the rain Because they Had A drink, this Is not Gods will. I have seen Men women And Children cast out from society and forced to surrender everything they Hold dear for the comfort of a place to call their own, I have seen governments Give Charge over peoples lives to a select Number of individuals So that they may gain control of the less fortunate of their societies. I have seen Good Men and Women bend to the will of tyranny, that They themselves my become it’s instrument. Never realizing or never caring that what they have become is the hand of their oppressors. Because they can not see past what was given to them, and open their eye’s to what is being denied others. Full well knowing that these very same Human rights that afford Man His dignity was once also withheld from them to bend their will.
So it is My prayer, That we in our lives see things for what they truly are and no longer stand in the way with those who choose to control the lives of others and that we break these Chains of oppression, And we do it first by not letting others to hold themselves in Lordship over others and Praise there own glory but rather let us Humble ourselves letting ourselves become less that others might become the more. There is no greater Human indignity thrust upon Men than the actions of those supposing themselves to be of a Higher estate, believing themselves and their actions to be greater than others. To truly be a great Man you must see The greatness of others and Not yours.
I am no different than any other man, I believe that the truth’s of this life that have been revealed to me are too be shared with others, I believe that they are truth and are common to others if only in the sense that It is by these truths I view the world around me. I make no pretext as to what others should or should not hold dear, yet as A man I share what I know and It is theirs to accept or in their own life reject as being true for Me their accepting or not is of no effect as to my beliefs.
There are truth’s that are universal to Men, some would argue even that. And with me they have to no avail The simplest being we are all born and on that day we begin our journey towards death which we shall all meet in the end. So be it, If in this fact alone we be bound together we are no longer independent fully one from another. This alone should draw Men together that It may draw them too Help and to nurture those in with whom they are found to be sharing this brief moment in time called life along the path, to the place where we as Human beings are all too once more become Equal. My greatest fear Is God as To my faith, as to the things of this life, it is that Men may only again find this commonality only in death. and not along this path. I often Pray it not be so.
I have with others often became embattled with the struggles we face when in opposition to my beliefs, when I find them imposing themselves on others or by dictate or mandate of those weaker than themselves, the abundance of this life that is to be available for all, they withhold or they by design use them to control Men.
This Is the very spirit of exploitation which I have taken upon myself to fight against. when Men By usury of others needs hold hostage their human rights, they are damnable indeed I have seen Men Withhold food from others, That they must hear what they place before them as the word of God, This is not the plan of the God I know, The abundance of food on this planet was for all in my Gods plan, And is not something to be used to bend Men to your will. I have seen Men forced to sleep in the rain Because they Had A drink, this Is not Gods will. I have seen Men women And Children cast out from society and forced to surrender everything they Hold dear for the comfort of a place to call their own, I have seen governments Give Charge over peoples lives to a select Number of individuals So that they may gain control of the less fortunate of their societies. I have seen Good Men and Women bend to the will of tyranny, that They themselves my become it’s instrument. Never realizing or never caring that what they have become is the hand of their oppressors. Because they can not see past what was given to them, and open their eye’s to what is being denied others. Full well knowing that these very same Human rights that afford Man His dignity was once also withheld from them to bend their will.
So it is My prayer, That we in our lives see things for what they truly are and no longer stand in the way with those who choose to control the lives of others and that we break these Chains of oppression, And we do it first by not letting others to hold themselves in Lordship over others and Praise there own glory but rather let us Humble ourselves letting ourselves become less that others might become the more. There is no greater Human indignity thrust upon Men than the actions of those supposing themselves to be of a Higher estate, believing themselves and their actions to be greater than others. To truly be a great Man you must see The greatness of others and Not yours.
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