A LETTER TO SOMEONE FACING HOMELESSNESS

There is so much in the news today that frightens people, not the least being the problems in housing. There is so much being said about the possibility of people losing their homes or people being unable to afford them. These fears are in almost everyone’s thoughts, whether they own a home or rent a home or have no home at all.

I’ve found relief from these fears through understanding what Jesus has said about home. Home is within us. It’s within our thought. What we understand of the qualities of home in our thinking, is what we bring into our experience. In the book of Genesis, in the first chapter of the Bible, it says that God created man in His own image and He created man good. (Remember when the Bible speaks of man, it is referring to men and women)

To me that says that God has created us to reflect everything that God is. He has created us complete and whole, needing nothing. When we were created, we were created with an understanding of our own completeness which has to include a place for home in our experience. We therefore can never be separated from home. And since God has created man complete, then that also includes usefulness and employment. These truths can never be taken from man or hidden from man, because they were given us by God.

So what is it that hides these things from our view so that we don’t have them in our experience? It has to be a lack of understanding of what is already true. And that lack brings a sense of fear that good is not present, or that we don’t believe we deserve good. God has created man out of His own all-embracing love. He intends for man to express Him. Do we trust this? We should. That’s what Jesus taught. He came to show each one of us the truth about our relationship to God: that we can never be separated from our creator. This truth sets us free from the imprisoning effects of fear and lack of understanding.

Listen to some of Jesus’ words to us:

“Therefore I say unto you, don’t worry about living---wondering what you are going to eat or drink, or what you are going to wear. Surely life is more important than food, and the body more important than the clothes you wear. Look at the birds in the sky. They never sow nor reap nor store away in barns, and yet your Heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you much more valuable to him than they are?

“Can any of you, however much he worries, make himself even a few inches taller? And why do you worry about clothes? Consider how the wild flowers grow. They neither work nor weave, but I tell you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these! Now if God so clothes the flowers of the field, which are alive today and burnt in the stove tomorrow, is he not much more likely to clothe you, you of little faith?

“So don’t worry and don’t keep saying, “What shall we eat, what shall we drink or what shall we wear, [or where will we find a house to live in?] That is what those who don’t understand are always looking for; your Heavenly Father knows that you need these things. Set your heart first on His kingdom and His goodness, and all these things will come to you as a matter of course.”
(These thoughts can be found in the Bible (J.B.Philips translation), in the book of Matthew, chapter 6)

Seek out the kingdom of God, the knowledge of God’s love for you. See and feel that you can’t be separated from Him by anything. Then everything that you have need of will be added to you. Remember, the state of your thought determines your experience. When your thought is filled with the goodness of God, and gratitude for that goodness, it will show in your experience in some way.

Just for today, take one of these truths that Jesus gave to us, and live it as if it is true. Watch the result that it will have on your experience. Refuse to doubt or let fear intimidate you. When you start seeing the results of this change in thought, write me and tell me about it. I’d love to talk with you more about this.

Wendy Manker

PS…If possible, I’d be happy to have your email address, so that I can answer you personally.