Homeless and Hungry

According to dictionary.com, prayers is a spiritual communion with God as in supplication, thanksgiving, adoration or confession.  It is the act or practice of praying to God.  So how do we pray?  And what really is prayer? Prayer is kind of like our phone line to heaven, it is a communication process that allows us to talk to God, like a personal phone call.  Some tips that I have learned over sometime, and I have tried to remember them when I am praying, but it is tough. Make your prayer personal, like you are talking to a good friend or a family member.  Share your worries, your fears, your joys, your everything with God.  In Luke 11, "So I say to you:  Ask and it will be given to you;seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened.  For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks the door will be opened."  The Lord our God seeks for us to talk to him about everything, even though he already knows what we are thinking about, wanting, and wishing for, he is waiting for us to ask him and to talk to him.  


I think about many things in a day, and I pray all the time for everyone around me, those that are far away, those that do not believe, and especially for me as a believer and all other believers to share the word of God.

Whenever I am home in Lenoir, as I drive along the streets.  I see more of something than I wish to see.  Not all of them are harmful, some are just lacking money, some just want to be loved and need a place to stay.  There are homeless everywhere.  Some at one time had a home and lost their job, their home, and their family.  Some once served our country, and now when they have come home, and they are put to the streets because there is no where for them to get a job.  I understand that some of them are dangerous, but have you ever stopped one of them and simply learned their name?  


As I was looking through the pictures online of homeless people it brought tears to my eyes.  It breaks my heart, not only for the homeless people, but also because there are so many pictures that are placed online to "advertise" the homeless.


There are many things in my future, but one think is one day is to run a homeless shelter in my hometown.  Not where I will be living during that time, but to come home to Lenoir and start a homeless shelter, because sadly there is not one.   I now attend school  in Hickory, and when talking to some of my friends that from here, they say that they never see the homeless. And they are right, when out about in Hickory, you never see the homeless walking around, because they are hidden up somewhere out of site.


We take it all for granted.  We take out lives for granted.  We have a shelter over our head, a nice warm place to stay in the winter and a cool place to stay in the summer.  There is food that we have access to, a comfortable place to sleep.  Most have computers and other electronic devices, but yet we wish for other things.


Dear, heavenly father.  Please help all of your children to learn and to continue growing in knowledge of how to talk to you through prayer. Please help us all understand that not all homeless people are dangerous, and maybe just a simple act of kindness is what they need.  Lord, you are amazing, and I praise you all the time.  In your holy name, I pray. Amen