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Poverty is . . .
June 28, 2008
Poverty Is . . .
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…fuel for the DREAMER!!!
…able to be OVERCOME!!!
…what we make of it!!!
…difficult!!!
…shameful!!!
…insulting!!!
…weakening!!!
…not easy!!!
…FIERCE!!!
…faithful to destroy!!!
…present!!!
…not to be feared!!!
…relentless!!!
…can be defeated with PRAISE!!!!!!!
Poverty to me is both financial and physical. Therefore, Poverty is: Not having anyone or anything.
…my fault.
…what hurts the dreamer.
shaming,heartbreaking,an extremely hard cycle to break,living in a car for a week.
Wow Amanda. I love your comment. We do have the type of poverty here in America…
…a need for patience to be healed.
…a chance to respond to God’s calling us.
lack of choices.
unmet needs without a hold to pull one’s self up
a lack of opportunity
Poverty is…a reminder of what we are to be to the world: the arms of Christ and the Hope that He is.
a vicious cycle that traps and separates humanity.
Desperation. Believing that there’s a chance you may not be alive next month and that you cannot provide the necessities to sustain life.
is an opportunity to put our hope in Christ and allow Him to use us to bring about change.
Poverty is a blessing waiting to happen.
rotten. Stinkin’ rotten.
Having the disease of “affluence” and no hope.
Beth
I believe that there are 3 different types of poverty.
1 – First, the poverty of having more than enough, always wanting more, never being satisfied, and yet still feeling so empty. This is the poverty I see in most of America. A poverty of searching.
2 – The poverty of struggling each and every day for the right to survive. In this type of poverty people not only have a lack of hope…but they don’t even realize that there is such a thing as hope, that there is another way for them to live. These poor are too busy trying to save themselves, their children, and their friends from starvation to look for a way out.
3 – This is the worst poverty of all. The poverty of a life that has not found salvation in the loving arms of God.
an opportunity to make a difference.
our generation’s chance to shine.
…watching your children go hungry and not being able to do anything about it.
…a weapon of Satan’s.
…an empty soul.
heartbreaking.
at its base, spiritual; truly having no options, at all, and therefore, no hope.
… like obscenity, you know it when you see it.
not just a story… for many people it is reality.
…believing that there’s nothing you can do to escape your situation.
…having no hope.
a lack of options.
a chance to see Christ
…not having seventy bucks to gas up my BMW
not okay.
…what most Americans think is their current experience. We don’t know squat about poverty.