Bookmarks: 1. Trash day 2. Prayer for enemies 3. Dealing with haters 4. Prayer in spirit 5. Following guidance Related: Some more prayer...

To get from Point A to Point B, you must move. At this moment, as I write this, I am living in a pit. I am homeless. I face a choice: do I want to get out, or stay here? I could choose to stay here, and continue to just take whatever the world chooses to throw at me; some folk toss in blessings, some toss in trash. There is the question of what to do with the trash I myself create. And what to do with my No. 1s and No. 2s. If I choose to get out — that means work. I must firs

Prayer for myself often takes the form of imagining myself climbing up a ladder out of a pit, the pit being my current circumstances of poverty and homelessness. Getting out at the top represents a return to the normal life of the American mainstream. I didn’t start with a ladder in there, but I decided to add one to symbolize the various structures and tools that others have made available to me — and eliminate the possibility of clawing at loose earth.