I'm so blessed to have been able to spend a week living and serving the homeless in a shelter in Washington DC this week. Thank you Justine for being an amazing co-leader and role model for our whole group. Thank you to all the beautiful people in this picture because all of you truly have beautiful hearts as well❤️ I'm so grateful for the gifts I've been given in this life, and thank Gannon University for inspiring me to grow in love and compassion through experiences like this one.
We have arrived back in Erie! After a week full of encountering new people and reflecting on our experiences at the Father McKenna Center, we have all returned safely to our home base. Thank you for following along with this blog of our trip. The implementation of our knowledge into our daily lives will not be an easy task, but we are well prepared to take it on. We all have learned so much through our experiences this week and are excited to share and show others what respect for human dignity truly means. Homelessness is an extremely complex problem in our country, and we have all struggled to grasp what the best response on our part should be. At the end of this trip, I have come to affirm that complex problems do not have easy solutions, and that solving huge problems like hunger and homelessness involve more than one person or one ABST group. However, the power of one is still strong and present everywhere- we experienced that through meeting amazing and inspiring individuals th
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