Earlier this week I posted humorously about homeless people, but now I want to address this seriously. Have you ever just sat back and thought about what it would be like to not have a home. Well, I have. I imagined what it would be like for my children and I to have to live on the streets and have nothing. No food, no place to lay our heads, and no money. None of the comforts that we have now. A nice warm bed, a refrigerator full of food, clean clothing as well as the ability to bathe and all the necessary things that we do every day. Now just imagine that being homeless is the reality for some people.

In Los Angeles alone I recently heard a statistic that said there are some 90,000 homeless people. Could you imagine? LA is just one place. All over this country and further yet all over this world there are people who are homeless. While most picture homeless people as vagrants, druggies and low lifes who due to some vice put themselves in their own predicament and don't deserve a thought that is not always the case. And even when it is the case there is absolutely no reason that in a world that boasts of one person having an eighteen room mansion anyone should be without a home.

In some areas there are apartments that barely have any occupants why couldn't someone allow homeless people to live there? When homeless people are found staying in abandoned homes, these are homes that are dilapidated and falling down, deemed uninhabitable, but they are forced to leave. What kind of world is this? What kind of people are we? We don't care about other humans beyond what money can provide. In a post entitled Am I Not Human?: World Hunger over at the blog Electronic Village it commented that "...the world's poorest people could be met for an additional $13 billion a year. Animal lovers in the United States and Europe spend more than that on pet food each year." Doesn't that speak to you about the fact that some people appear to be lower than a domestic animal that their most basic needs cannot be cared for.

While I personally am not in a position to help homeless people monetarily and I truly truly wish I was I do try to give them the comfort that God cares about their plight and he does. Some humans are selfish and those in positions of power fight to keep homeless people oppressed through laws that will no doubt only make the statistic of homelessness continue to rise. God does see. He see's and has promised to bring a solution to this problem. So let us not turn a blind eye to the problems that plague other people who may seem insignificant in our own eyes. We are all humans. We are all fighting under the same conditions. And regardless of our state whether homeless or wealthy we all have the same destiny so let us always remember and show empathy to those who are less fortunate than we are.

Roots of Humanity feels that each of us can fight against human rights abuses in the world. We simply need to do something. Protest. Meditate. Pray. In the case of bloggers ... we want you to blog on the 27th of each month. Just share information on behalf of our human siblings in all suffering areas who are either barred from communication by their governments, or lacking in technology to ask: Am I Not Human?