The Daily G.I.F.T. from The GratiDude

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Morning Meditation from The GratiDude

I never heard the term “unhoused” being used to discuss homeless people as I had called them my whole life.

And back before there were homeless people, the only people that were voluntarily homeless were called hobos and they were romanticized, and people dressed up as them, and it was a novelty.

Only the last 40+ years, has homelessness been on the rise and an epidemic in the United States and there are lots of public and private policies that have contributed to that especially the gutting of the veteran’s administration, mental health budget and a lot of other veterans’ services.  Other factors are obviously a complete lack of affordable, rehabilitation and medical services around addiction with alcohol being the gateway drug that leads so many people down to the path of harder, drugs, fentanyl, and other things.

And when we use the term home, we create this kind of blanket image that covers even a six-year-old little boy that’s living with his mom in a car because they’re in between houses or a 66 year-old veteran who fought in a war for his country and three series of men no longer has a regular home to call his own.

The point is what I’m saying is that every single person is a child of God, a brother, and a sister and not part of some nondescript large group called homeless.

The term unhoused, I believe, is attempting to humanize folks and really explain their situation, not as a lifelong label, but instead as a temporary situation, implying that hopefully the situation can change and improve.

Guarantee that if everyone was mandated to have a conversation with an unhoused person on the street in their community for five minutes and exchange basic information about each other’s lives while looking each other in the eye there would be so much more effort to help people off the street because they would be humanized and we would realize that they are all individuals with stories with hearts with love with dreams, ambitions, fears, doubts, just like all of us.

When we learn about each other, we connect emotionally and spiritually, and we wish to help each other.

Just talking is a great place to start and that’s where everything started with this video as you can see here.