It's kind of sad for me to see this. I didn't shoot it. I'm not sure that I would have, or that I would have published it if I had. Vernon has four songs on major label records right now, but he is living in his car parked beside a Walmart somewhere in Nashville, Tennessee.
He won't collect any royalties on the songs for a few months, yet he won't get out of his car and walk into Walmart and ask for a job. Same for Helen who is sitting next to him shooting this video, and living with him. They subsist off of gifts from folks who care, and free meals and laundry services from churches and aid organizations around Nashville.
"We think sometimes that poverty is only
being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted,
unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our
own homes to remedy this kind of poverty." - Mother Teresa
The proceeds from sales of Vernon's new single, A Lot More Jesus, will be payable within a month or two. In the mean time, sitting in the car day after day, and visiting with friends under bridges. Hanging in the local library surfing the internet, and scraping up enough to get by with a meal and maybe a drink of something. Tough to understand in light of research that indicates that life on the streets can cost 30 years or more of one's life expectancy. Homeless people die 30 years younger than national average population.
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