Homeless experience

One thing that i always want to write about in my blogs every week but i keep forgetting to write about is the one time i slept outside in streets with my church group. The reason why we did this was to see how it felt to sleep outside and live outside for 3 days straight. I remember all we had was a back pack with a couple changes of clothes and a sleeping back and a cardboard box. There were a total of 15 of us doing this that weekend including my youth group instructor. When i first did this i didn’t think it was actually that bad but after sleeping outside for three nights straight with nothing to really keep you warm really sucks and i am so glad for what i have and ever since then i don’t really take things for granted because things for my life could honestly be worse. After staying the night on the street everyday we would go eat back at the church and hangout and talk about the experiences of each night and talk about the overall experience and talk about things that went through each others head and feeling while outside. After we had our debrief everyday ended  up going to homeless shelters giving out blankets and clothes to people in the shelter that were donated to the church, we also fed the homeless people at the shelters and just tried to do the best we could to make the people happy and make their lives and days as easy as we possibly could. I would encourage everyone to do this if they are ever presented  with this opprotunity because it really opened my eyes and made me think about how good my life is and how i can help the less fortunate.