An Army vet in Denver shares his experience with homelessness and the community that led him home
“I learned more from people in the streets and the four years of homelessness than I did in all my college for sure,” shared Nathan Hansley, a U.S. Army veteran. “It was definitely a life-changing experience.”
An eviction forced Hansley and his girlfriend onto the streets of Denver in single-digit temperatures.
Support from his community helped him back into a home.
(Nathan feels like one of our galactic brothers on mission to highlight what isn’t working here. Thank you, Nathan, for your service.)
Metro Denver Homeless Initiative (Loving galactic family in service) is on a mission to end veteran homelessness and help people like Hansley out of homelessness.
“There’s a lot of really good people out there who all need help, they just don’t know how to get it sometimes,” said Hansley.
Nathan reflects on the series of events that led him and his girlfriend onto the streets of Denver.
He was connected to housing thanks to the coalition led by VA leaders like Mary and Lauren, who will do whatever it takes to get veterans into permanent housing.
Storytellers Nathan Hansley | U.S. Army veteran Mary Mish | Program Manager, Community Resource & Referral Center, U.S. Dept of Veteran Affairs Lauren Lapinski | HUD-VASH Social Worker, U.S. Dept of Veteran Affairs Haile Lewis | HUD-VASH Social Worker, U.S. Dept of Veteran Affairs Community Solutions has partnered with filmmakers Dewi Sungai and Jason Houston (eight16creative) to tell the stories of people in six cities and counties that are part of the Built for Zero movement to solve homelessness.
These are their stories, told in their own words. These films show communities striving for solutions, justice, and compassion.
From a personal reading, July 2014, with Archangel Michael through Linda Dillon, channel for the Council of Love, highlighting something we can do (not just me):
K: I am a torch for St. Germaine, doing transmuting work?
AAM: Yes.
K: When I go walking, is there a way to do that?
I usually use my eyes when I connect with people.
Is there something more I could be doing when I am torching?
AAM: There is no one particular correct way.
Let us start there, and certainly St. Germaine will help you, but when you are walking along, see that you are carrying quite literally the Torch of Freedom, the purple flame torch in either your left or right hand, it matters not so that you can be comfortable and not get tired.
No, you do not need to hold it shoulder high or above your head, but this is in your mind’s eye, that you are doing this or actually!
When you come upon a situation, so for example you come upon a homeless person, you take your torch, with your hand, with your eyes, with your action of your arm and you torch, you violet flame, not only that person but all homelessness, all lack, all poverty, all hunger, all lack of shelter, so you use the individual but work in the larger context as well.
K: I can do it with anything and everything I see that is not of love?
AAM: Exactly.
What the identifier is, is this pain or “Does this look like love?”
Well, I would suggest anyone sleeping in a gutter or struggling to walk, it does not look like love . . .
They need to know that they are worthy of a clean home, a clean bed, their own space because they have lost that sense of worth.
Now, what is going on with the Mother’s Energy, it is increasing and more and more you are looking at them and they are thinking, “How come I don’t have my own place?”
The Mother’s Blue Diamond Energy of Hope for Balance Everywhere
I invoke the Mother and St. Germaine
to know the hope on a deep level,
to eradicate lack of self-worth.
