192. Invisible Faces

Homelessness is a problem that people don’t come in contact with on a daily basis. It tends to not get the publicity that a major disaster would get.

Phil Frame

Homelessness in America isn’t a topic that is widely publicized.  When you look at the mainstream media, homelessness certainly doesn’t get top billing like the news of our political foibles or the latest tabloid tales of celebrities. I’ve often thought  that homelessness is treated as a dirty little secret that  is hidden from most Americans. I think we hide homelessness  due to the fact that there is too little  being done to solve this problem.. The issue of homelessness just isn’t a “feel good” topic. Admittedly, there are many thousands of homeless citizens who will tell you that there isn’t much to feel good about when you face life without a home . Despite our best efforts to make our homeless citizens invisible to the public at large, they are out there in each and every community in our country.

Just last week a colleague of mine was sharing that her church had taken it upon themselves to provide one meal a week to the rising homeless population within their small ,rural county.