The Indigent and Homeless

Jesus Christ said you will find me among the dispossessed and outcasts of society. For anyone who has spent anytime with a homeless person—at times, you would be very hard pressed to see the ‘face of Christ.’ These are people—plain, ordinary people. Mother Teresa of Calcutta spent decades among the poor in India. It has been said she, at times, would fall into despair over the fact that she was overwhelmed. 

I, presently, live in an area with a lot of poor and indigent people. When I say my heart bleeds—it is no lie. There are so many times when I can’t do a thing. At those times there is quite a bit of despair, and you realize these people may be mentally ill or unstable. 

It has been awhile since a law was passed that gave the right to a mentally ill person to refuse their medications— it is in my estimation absolutely wrong. While being overwhelmed with prescriptions is cruel—there are some medications that would leave many people catatonic. These souls would essentially sleep all day and interact with no one. 

While despair may be too kind of a word for what is happening to the homeless and mentally ill, to those who are in power to pass laws will not see despair. They will see medical expenses mounting in the billions of dollars. It will be cruel when it happens...

History is cyclical and those who don’t learn from the mistakes of the past will feel the pain...

Location: Fresno, CA 93721, USA

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