[married21]

Some homeless people have been tossed aside by family, but others have alienated everybody who loved them.

You are right, though that each one is somebody’s baby. My brother was a violent schizophrenic drug addict. The only reason he wasn’t homeless was because, by the grace of God, he secured an honorable discharge from the military, so the VA had to help him, such as they might. (He could go for help at the VA hospital, but they could not force him to stay long enough to benefit from it.) Then, he committed a crime and went to the secure ward of the state mental hospital for the rest of his life.

Mental illness sucks. And “modern” medicine is in the baby stages of knowing what to do about it.

It can be very dangerous to interact with homeless people, but we really are called by God to take the risk or support people who do. What we do for them, we do for God.

[yldstrk]

I am sorry. I do not understand all the suffering in the world.

[rawcatslyentist]

And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.

http://biblehub.com/matthew/25-40.htm

[maine-iac7]

Amen -

Guess a lot of folk in here never heard “The Poor, Wayfaring Man”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJGuT5xi718