When you pass a homeless person on the street and you say, hey there's a bum—he may not be. He may be just like you.

Homelessness doesn't happen all at once. A child becomes sick and you can't pay the bills. A spouse dies and you go into despair. A divorce tears a family apart. A flood takes your house. There are many roads to becoming homeless.

It's a myth to think people choose to be without a place to call home. Homelessness becomes a state of mind where the only thing you have is despair.

It's important to recognize others can help—government, friends, the church or synagogue—but first they have to believe the homeless person is a human being, a person worth working with.

The myth is that the homeless person is something less than us. by Dwight, a formerly homeless man