Homeless!

SAINT LOUIS, Mo....So when I left you last the truck was out of service and in desperate need of repair. There goes more money into the expense column. Yeah me. This picture was taken during the rescue of Jeff my hero driver with Chad my hero friend at the wheel. As you can see it was late and so much to see. This is an amazing lighting fixture on top of a building. Wow. Jeff was not so lucky, he was stranded in a very bad part of town, getting approached and yelled at by very scary people. The truck would not run and so he was also waiting out in the cold for and hour waiting for help. The rescue was a success and the truck repaired and back on the road in one day. So, needless to say I did not lose the $800.00 worth of loads, I only lost about $300.00. We survived and now we have once again pulled off an agreement with the company we are running for to give us designated runs right here in St. Louis. Now we are getting somewhere and hopefully we will find an affordable pad to hold office and lay our heads for a while till we find where this is going to lead and where we will be moving on to next. Can’t wait to see where this leads. Life is good. We miss the kids and the grandbabies but I AM SO HAPPY! Wow. This feels like BLISS!!!!!!


HOMELESS…by: Annie Thompson

Envision this… There is a hotel and in this hotel lives a little old black woman. This early morning with grey overcast skies and the interstate right next door with all it’s sounds from cars and trucks whizzing by this little old lady is seen walking from the hotel towards the outer road of the interstate all bundled up and carrying a suitcase. She walks a few feet and then sets down the suitcase and rests and then she picks it up and starts the process over again of walking and resting, walking and resting. I asked her if she was okay and she looked at me and said, ”Oh, yes mam. I’m fine.” and then she continued on her journey. At that moment I was bound and determined to find the story behind this little old lady and why she is out there walking the streets with a suitcase. I went back inside the hotel and found the housekeeper cleaning my room and asked him what he knew about her. Apparently she lives here and everyday she goes out into the street and finds people to help her pay for her room and living expenses. Is this begging? Why? Why does she not have a family to take care of her, why is she all alone? Here is a picture that does not fit. A little old lady with out any money and without anywhere to go is living in a hotel, walking the streets begging. There is a giant church across the way, have they ever noticed her? They are a church, aren’t they supposed to reach out to people? She walks right in front of it every day. There are policeman every where whose job it is to protect and serve, why haven’t they taken her to a shelter? Why hasn’t she been taken to a hospital for observation to see if she needs treatment for something and then place into the Vocational Rehabilitation system?

I am very gullible I will admit, but this is just one little old lady and there are millions just like her roaming the streets. It is amazing to me that there are billions of people on this earth but yet there are so many that are all alone.