The Blessing of Being Homeless

To be without a home is not to be without God. In the Ethiopian canon, the Book of Meqabyan reminds us:

“The Lord does not dwell in houses made by hands, but in the hearts of the righteous.” (3 Meqabyan 4:10)

Homelessness, in its deepest spiritual sense, is a stripping away of illusion. It is the wilderness where prophets are born, where the veil between heaven and earth thins. The unhoused are not forgotten—they are chosen to carry the weight of divine mystery.

To walk without shelter is to walk as Christ did, as the prophets did, as the angels do—unencumbered by walls, open to the sky’s rebuke and the moon’s embrace. It is a blessing that calls the world to remember what it has forsaken.

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