Listening to many the stories of housing issues are
similar. One couple a few months
ago found housing after more than a year of
homelessness. After only 2 months
they are looking again as the place they hoped to call home is being converted
to something else and they are out.
They desperately look for a new place and find themselves in a long line
of others doing the same. They
were hopeful and yet discouraged - a rollercoaster - an emotional cycle of
relief and dismay and then back again.
It is complicated and confusing and difficult. She leans into me and whispers with tear filled eyes,
‘I can’t come back here to the shelter…’
Listening with my heart, giving emotional support in the moment,
wondering why? Is it enough? For that moment of time, it was enough. Bearing God’s Grace to the helpless, to
the least, to a beloved child of God – it is. Knowing things may get worse for them, being present with
them, love and light bearers in a
world of darkness and despair, helping them to hold onto hope.
Communion
