Are you sure?
This bookmark will be removed from all folders and any saved notes will be permanently removed.
Eye on the world: Home for all
In “In Paris, refugee crisis puts new strain on city’s homelessness problem” The Christian Science Monitor reports that “the influx of migrants in France, and especially in Paris, has put pressure on an already strained emergency housing mechanism.” The mass migration from war-torn parts of the Middle East and Africa to developed European countries is depleting government resources, which further complicates the challenge of helping an already growing homeless population. “Migrants who, as they wait for their asylum requests to go through, find themselves on the streets of the French capital, adding to an already serious homelessness problem in Paris.” However, the populace is dispatching solutions: “In a yearly contest that allows Parisians to send in their ideas for how the city should spend 5 percent of its budget, a project to provide more adequate housing won out over all others. So while many say there is still not enough housing to go around, the city is rising to the occasion.”
Ideas on this subject:
From the Bible:
My God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
From the writings of Mary Baker Eddy:
It is the all-hearing and all-knowing Mind, to whom each need of man is always known and by whom it will be supplied.
— Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 7
Pilgrim on earth, thy home is heaven; stranger, thou art the guest of God.
— Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 254
Related articles from The Christian Science Journal and the Christian Science Sentinel:
In “Giving shelter”: “Prayer that acknowledges the intelligent and complete care provided for all by our infinite Father-Mother God removes the fearful belief that compassionate acts will benefit some people at the expense of others.” And “When we look to God for a clearer understanding of His ever-presence and limitless love for all His creation—His spiritual ideas, embraced in His allness and goodness—we are establishing in our thoughts a spiritual foundation for constructive actions to help refugees, and to help those helping them.”
In “Homeless? No!”: “The many people in our contemporary world who suffer from homelessness—thought-weary, lonely wanderers in the midst of society’s sometimes lush benefits—can find hope in the one God. At the same time, our prayers, from the enlightened standpoint of understanding God’s care for all His children, can be a good way for us to cherish and help these individuals.” And “What can prayer do for those who today walk the streets feeling abandoned, homeless? What direction does Christian Science offer in this severe predicament? It shows us God’s nature as everlasting Love—all-knowing, all-acting, all-wise, all-caring and man’s actual selfhood, inseparable from God as His spiritual likeness. It shows us that we can find our true home in God.”
The articles above and others dealing with this subject can be found on JSH-Online.com or on CSMonitor.com.