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My Journey with God — Part 3

Luc Dermul
3 min readJan 17, 2024

How it all begun — final chapter

Living on the street

While trying to cope with my divorce and fighting over the custody of our children, more bad news was coming my way.

Because of a reorganisation, I got fired from my job.

Living on welfare & ending up with no home to turn to because my landlord sold his rental I was living in.

Homeless and without a job is the least appealing candidate for a new rental.

Luckily I could sleep at a friend's place, but spending hours on the street during daytime, looking for a job and rental.

Got some casual work, but the earnings were not enough to start anew… let alone to pay the money I owned to many people.

This led to almost 2 years not seeing my children because I had no longer a place to live & where they could come home to.

I was a mess…

Turning point

Because I was living on welfare for almost 2 years, I became eligible for a state program in the social work economy that would guide me to a job.

First, they helped me to get a place of my own with enough space to see my children again.

It was an emotional reconnection with my children. Tears ran down my cheeks in floods.

Today, I still work in the social work economy as a guide for people who have a handicap (either…

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Luc Dermul
Luc Dermul

Written by Luc Dermul

Belgian online entrepreneur living in Antwerp. Life Coach https://thecoachvalley.com/ & affiliate marketer https://affiliatesuccesses.com/

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