Trying to clear up several items with one post…

Last week, the Wall Street Journal reported that the homeless are increasingly wired – email, laptops and cell phones. I remarked on this a while back, and see it only increasing as we become more and more connected as a society.  Also remember that virtually no homeless adult was born that way – most had jobs, houses, families, etc. before the precipitating event that drove them out of their residence. When you become homeless, you do not become stupid, forgetting how to set up a hot mail account, how to email your family, how to cruise craigslist looking for jobs, etc.

Several weeks ago, the media made a big deal out of several studies that show that the poor are much more generous than the wealthy. This has very much been my experience – I told a touching story about one I was the recipient of such generosity here. My favorite quote from the article:

“We’re not scared of poverty the way rich people are,” he said. “We know how to get the lights back on when we can’t pay the electric bill.”

And for all of you who were wondering about Emily - I saw her this weekend and she told me her husband is in jail right now, and looks like he will be there for several months. Pray that while he is in there we can get her to leave so he can’t continue to victimize her when he gets out.