A Better Home

For over five months now, I've been praying for the homeless. When I started this 6x6 prayer (praying for one thing six days a week for six months), I had no idea why I chose this topic. I'd never felt particularly called to help the homeless before or hadn't had any experience that might cause me to choose this particular group of people. All I had was a line from a song ("You never had a home") and a strong conviction that this was what God wanted me to pray for. So I prayed and prayed some more and as I continued praying, I started focusing on what exactly homelessness meant. I went on the internet and recorded some points I thought were interesting. Some synonyms I found to the word homeless were helpless, unprotected, abandoned and deserted. I find it interesting that these words carry a whole lot more meaning than just not having a roof over your head. They all hold a sense of loneliness and an idea that there is no one they can turn to. And I realized that while I may not be able to provide all these people food or shelter, I can show them love. I can tell them through my words and more importantly through my actions, that they are not alone, that someone wants to help them and cares for them. I can share with them the wonderful hope they can have for an eternal home in Heaven. Living in that home is so much more important than having a temporal home here on earth. After all, many people with mansions here may find themselves without any protection after death. And those are the truly helpless people. They are helpless not because of a lack of shelter but because when they were shown love, they chose to remain helpless and unprotected by abandoning and deserting the only one who could help them.