RELIGION; Get Out Of Jail Free Card...NOT!

Dear Pastor Green,

I just wanted to thank you again for the your time and the churches’ help. Larry and I appreciate it very much.
We now have a number of extra hours to work on our latest employment opportunity.

As you suggested, having still another hourly job between Larry and myself, or one for both of us at the same time, at minimum wage might work, but this will not keep us in a motel or pay our bills, such as phone, storage of our belongings or car payment.

If we already had a home that was paid for then it would work, but in our situation, where all we ever owned is gone, these kinds of jobs will merely keep us living in our car, as it takes a couple of weeks to get paid to boot, even if everything else were in order. Not to mention the financial crimes committed against us have destroyed our once great credit and minimum wage jobs require credit checks, which we’d never pass; then there’s our ages! Well, not sure you’d realize what I’m about to say; you’re very young, while we have lived a real life eye-opener for a number of years since the financial crimes took all we had, but starting at around 50 years old, in this country, finding good employment is almost impossible.

We have aged out!

Sales commission employment, and finding a way, without our own funds, to rebuild one’s business is the only work for people our age.

It was when I turned 50 that the financial crimes took my life away as I knew it. And before this, both Larry and I were self-employed. Employers don’t want to hire those of us who were once self-employed.

Since 2007, Larry and I still took the employment we could get while working on creating a new business out of air, because of course we’ve had very little income and have lived many months, on and off since that time, in our car. There were even about 14 months we didn’t have a car at all.

Then take Larry’s health issues. Thank God they aren’t huge but they are painful. And sleeping in our car makes them far worse.
Did we mention that both Larry and my challenges would have been past issues had we had a home or the help we needed? Since 2007 we have been employed, obtained through pure tenacity, many times and lost the employment because we were homeless, living in our car, while the shelters were full or wouldn’t take us because we had a dog, and like we mentioned, we have no family.

Our Bu is family, however.

Our precious, “The Bu” has now passed away, as of July 2017, unfortunately. He is still our family of course, along with our five other precious dogs that were violently stripped from our lives in 2009, another consequence of the unaddressed by the proper authorities financial and real estate crimes.

It’s also unfortunate, with the purposely unaddressed by the proper authorities financial and real estate crimes going on in this country, today, the churches and charities haven’t adjusted their assistance programs to help people get back on their feet better.
These crimes are wiping people out, and small donations are helpful, but don’t solve any problems, they merely prolong the suffering after a slight reprieve, which makes it still more difficult to go back to suffering after these few days of reprieve. And this continued suffering, living in one’s car, keeps people from rebuilding.

However, we have learned to appreciate any and all help that comes our way, and it has been the help found here and there that has kept us alive.

We pray one day we will get ahead of all this and flourish once again, using our God given talents.

Thank you again so much Nate for your help; we will likely take you up on the invitation to attend service at your church, once we have the gas in our car. Today, and for the next few days however, while still having a roof over our heads until Friday, because of you, we need to spend our time seeking more help in keeping ourselves housed so we can continue the employment we have, plus we still need money for gas and food until the first paycheck comes in.

This could be by Friday or not for another week, God only knows.

As of now, we are still in pure survival mode, while we divide our time between, obtaining customers and more help for ourselves so we can continue our work.

Please don’t take this the wrong way, Nate but I have a question that I’ve been wanting to ask someone, in your position, for years.

How are the other people your church has helped doing today?

Have their lives been rebuilt? Would this not be the goal? At least helping to point these people in a positive direction?

And I know Larry and I aren’t members of your church, but we have called upon our own churches, those we grew up in, and they have refused to help us. So my question even relates to your own congregation here.

I’m curious because Larry and I were attacked by all this crime starting in 1997, which destroyed our business, our only livelihood, and our only family, our precious dogs; never mind our human families as they have made their choices that money is more important than people and relationships.

It’s called GREED!

However, Larry and my experiences, over the last now twenty years, have been outrageous considering what the crimes had already done; instead of compassion, from those we have sought assistance from, we have been met with such ugliness that it’s difficult to understand how this world even functions?

The victims are punished in this world, when the Bible states;

1 John 3:17-18
But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him? Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.


How would you interrupt the quote above?

Had there merely been someone out there who had believed in our God given talent’s, already proven to be very successful as our work was garnering upwards of four figures for one item alone, as shown here from twenty years ago, http://bespokebydeborah.blogspot.com/ and invested say $25,000.00, at that time, so we could restart our business we’d likely be earning a lot of money by now, which because of our gratefulness, much of it would have landed in the hands of those who helped us, such as in donations to our church, for instance. And likely it would be far more than a $25,000.00 donation over a twenty year period.

And after what Larry and I have seen and experienced, we’d have started our Internet program, which we have come up with, to help other suffering people like us. I mean real assistance leaving people equipped in rebuilding their lives quickly.

By the way, over this twenty-year period, Larry and I have received in small donations, piecemeal style, easily OVER $25,000.00 painfully dragged out, $50.00 to $100.00 at a time, over the last twenty years so all we could do is merely survive.

What a waste of the giver’s funds, because assistance, given in this manor, keeps people poor when there’s simply no reason to be poor. Most of the suffering homeless and penniless are creative hard working human beings, such as we are.

Meanwhile we have limped along, chasing any employment we can find, from one state to another after living in a tent we couldn’t stand up in for three years, receiving small donations here and there so we didn’t die in the streets…and we still are doing so.

What’s more the hourly jobs we have managed to obtain, have been slave labor camps where we were so abused that the Labor Department should have been contacted, but here again they don’t do their job anymore than the other authorities in this country do.

So why bother?

People with our abilities, shouldn’t be living in the streets, which helps me understand what the true cause for why homelessness and pennilessness is so rampant in society today. That would be because the business, financial and legal world are corrupt, and the churches and charities, for the most part, won’t really assist the victims to this crime and corruption.

They resent having to help, in our experience.

The earth is instead full of talented capable human beings struggling to survive because they were hit by crime, the authorities do nothing, and the churches and charities don’t like to help.

Today we have two more nights in this motel, almost no money for food and our car on the verge of being repossessed…again! We have less time to put into our work; our time must AGAIN go into survival.

As of just moments ago, we are now in the process of losing our phones. If this happens, we land in the streets and lose our car; your assistance will have been wasted upon us. We will then lose the employment we now have…again for the umpteenth time during this twenty-year cycle, and for the same reason.

However, we thank you from the bottom of our hearts for your help. You are keeping us alive for another short time; hopefully we can find more assistance in the next few days as we continue to work on our business.

Unfortunately, I doubt we’ll be able to attend your church this coming up Sunday…we don’t have the money for gas as I mentioned yesterday.

One last statement I have to make, Nate if you’d be so kind as to listen. It is my belief God has not created what Larry, our six precious dogs, and myself have and continue to suffer from, He instead expects us all to help each other, against the earthly ills, and in fact I believe He sets situations up where we meet each other for a reason, an opportunity if you will, to assist each other with what is needed most…and in what we are most able to give. In other words God helps us through people often times, but in today’s world those we meet, who have the most ability to actually help, don’t.

It is only those who have little who are willing to give whatever they can; sometimes it’s a prayer and a hug.
We are very grateful for it all…

And we are very grateful for what you were willing to extend to us… three nights with a roof over our heads.

The problem here is churches and charities, such as your church, can help more if they wanted to… they just don’t want to…simple as that!

Again, thank you and God Bless You!

Sincerely,
Larry and Deborah