by
Sylvia Anderson
| Jun 17, 2011
I was just thinking about Patti, the 51-year old woman who was living in her car for a month. If you haven’t read her story yet, you can here.
You might think that a month doesn’t seem like a long time to be homeless. But think of going for a month without a hot shower. You have to use public restrooms all day long. Even brushing your teeth is a complicated chore. No hot meals cooked up in your microwave or baked in your oven.
You just survive, minute by minute.
For 43,200 minutes.
No wonder she was thinking of killing her self.
It sounds like a chapter out of Dante’s Inferno, the classic book that describes the supposed levels of purgatory leading up to hell.
There was no end in sight to Patti’s suffering, until she came to the Mission. Sometimes it takes a while for someone on the streets to find out that we’re here. But eventually, God draws them in. First for the meal. Then for the hope. And finally, to stay with us and change their lives.
What an amazing miracle that is . . . to go from 30 days in a car, to a lifetime of hope. God uses you to make these kind of miracles possible every day!