Was waiting in line yesterday afternoon to get into the Path of Life’s 30 day program when the Riverside Homeless Outreach Street Program brought in a man that was newly homeless. And blind.
I have met this gentleman before in some AA meetings and he is the nicest guy you would ever know. Even has a sense of humor about his blindness.
It seems that the board and care that he was living in suddenly closed with no warning and he found himself tossed out on the street. While he has SSDI and should find new housing fairly quickly in got me thinking.
There is an old adage about when you think you have it bad, someone comes along who has it worse. I could not image how scary it would be to be homeless and disabled. The streets are dangerous enough. How do you protect yourself when you are blind, deaf or suffer from any number of disabilities?
How difficult it would be to not be able to speak the language. No matter what side of the illegal immigrant issue you are on, you would have to admit that this would be a nightmare.
Anyhow, just a few thoughts for the day.
God Bless,
James McPherson
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