Some links are too important to be contextless. Here is one of them. David Krug is talking about being homeless and rootless over the last decade.
For 10+ years I’ve been homeless. Wandering the face of the earth. Often times I had a home. But I never felt at home. I never felt like I had any connection. I often had shelter, and nice shelter. But I was often alone. I tried changing that thinking that a bad relationship, and marriage was better than no relationship.
The stress and chaos of bad business decisions, bad family life, and everything propelled me into a state of chaos. In the past struggled with substance abuse. All of the above plunged into horrible health and this landed me in the worst series of chaotic health events of my adult life.
First, Malaria. Then my Appendix Burst. Then truly I was alone. Alone to deal with this and a nasty divorce. One that often turned violent.
Some people believe that turning to God and religion will solve all of these problems. But my personal belief is that this too is often a crutch.
The biggest cause of homelessness I believe is not economic crisis, or health crisis, or addiction. These are all outside factors. The real cause in homelessness is a lack of healthy relationships.
This is something I really lacked. At thus my inablity to overcome homelessness had nothing to do with shelter. I could always go live in Tijuana with any of numerous unsavory friends. Instead I forced myself to develop and build a network of friends and amazing ones at that.
He says, “Some people believe that turning to God and religion will solve all of these problems. But my personal belief is that this too is often a crutch. ”
He then says, “The real cause in homelessness is a lack of healthy relationships.”
He then goes on to talk about a band of brothers and sisters who are helping him along. That’s great and hopefully through them he might be encouraged to reach out to the One with Whom he can have the healthiest relationship of all and Who will help him with everything else.
What about you Jordon? You’ve been working with the Salvation Army for some time now, you are seeing it all now, all the homelessness and the broken and so called down and outs on the street. What is your answer to them? What is the message that God would have you bring to them?