It’s been almost two months since I returned home. I am just now able to sit at my computer and write about the sum of my experiences walking in the shoes of the homeless and unemployed. When I received the vision for the Walk a Week in Your Shoes campaign in 2009, I was a ...
Week 29 God certainly intended for me to leave the transitional housing room tonight. The surprise is I am going back to Houston for a vacation. Following God on this journey has kept me away from them for seven months. I have missed so much: my nephew’s rookie season in Little League Baseball, his birthday ...
Week 29 I have received offers from friends to pay the $25 rent to stay in the room. However, as I have now gotten rid of the necessities to stay here (bed linens, towels, eating utensils, clothes, etc.), I have passed the point of no return. God instructed me to remove those things because he ...
Week 29 At 11:58, God told me to get completely dressed at 12:00 noon. So here I sit in my suit, patent leather pumps, earrings, and necklace waiting on God to move me. God, I don’t know when you plan to move me, how, or to where but I trust you. I have followed your ...
Homeless, Unemployed, Women in Transition, Year TwoWeek 29 I have completed the 3-day vision quest and have emerged with a sense of elated peace and fortified faith. Upon awakening, God immediately put me to work cleaning the floors and surfaces I have touched to release my energy and bless the space for the next tenant. I packed up my toothbrush and ...
Homeless, Unemployed, Women in Transition, Year TwoWeek 28: Walking in the shoes of the homeless and unemployed My three-day quest ends today. I have 1/4 cup of detoxifying kale left to facilitate the fast. Then I have nothing left. No more food. No money. Nothing but the clothes on my back-the suit-literally. Everything else I have gotten rid of as God ...
Homeless, Unemployed, Women in Transition, Year TwoWeek 28: Walking in the shoes of the homeless and unemployed 12 days to move out After scrubbing the room from top to bottom on Monday, tossing out all bed linens, and packing my things, I camped out on the floor in a two and a half foot wide space. All I had was my ...
Homeless, Unemployed, Women in Transition, Year TwoWeek 28 – Walking in the shoes of the homeless and unemployed 11:04am When I awoke this morning, God immediately had me to pack the rest of my things. He instructed me to leave out a change of clothes; pack the rest. I tossed more clothes, too. Now, I am literally down to my suit, ...
Homeless, Unemployed, Women in Transition, Year Two
Week 28: Walking in the shoes of the homeless and unemployed Well, this is it. God told me on April 26 that I was moving out of this 8’ x 12’ transitional housing room on May 23rd. The happenings of the days that followed confirmed that message. On Monday May 2nd, I found out that ...
Week 26: Walking in the shoes of the homeless and unemployed It has been months since I have last written in my journal. For the past week, I have written a couple of notes in a hard cover journal but the written thoughts have been quiet. I understand why—God has moved my station and I ...