Helping other people has always been one of my most gratifying actions. However, I'm finding that it's difficult to do much to help others when I can't seem to take care of myself. You have very little credibility for helping other people when you are homeless. It's easy to lose hope and give up on life. It's difficult to maintain a positive attitude and focus on the future when you are confronted with several problems at once.
Friends are, or should be, an important part of anyone's support system and many "insiders" don't realize this. I devalued a lot of my old friendships and consequently lost contact with a lot of people. Now that I'm spending a lot of time in my truck, I'm beginning to realize that it would be nice to have a few more friends. I'd have more options when I need a shower or someone to talk to.
My advice: be grateful for those people who love you & encourage you to do the right thing.
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"No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money. Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lillies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, "what shall we eat?" or "What shall we drink?" or "What shall we wear?" For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness and all these things will be given to you as well." Matthew 6:24-33
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