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Poverty is . . .
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June 28th, 2008 at 7:58 am
…what most Americans think is their current experience. We don’t know squat about poverty.
June 28th, 2008 at 7:59 am
not okay.
June 28th, 2008 at 8:20 am
…not having seventy bucks to gas up my BMW
June 28th, 2008 at 9:01 am
a chance to see Christ
June 28th, 2008 at 9:49 am
a lack of options.
June 28th, 2008 at 10:04 am
…having no hope.
June 28th, 2008 at 10:27 am
…believing that there’s nothing you can do to escape your situation.
June 28th, 2008 at 11:29 am
not just a story… for many people it is reality.
June 28th, 2008 at 1:02 pm
… like obscenity, you know it when you see it.
June 28th, 2008 at 1:40 pm
at its base, spiritual; truly having no options, at all, and therefore, no hope.
June 28th, 2008 at 2:36 pm
heartbreaking.
June 28th, 2008 at 4:13 pm
…an empty soul.
June 28th, 2008 at 6:34 pm
…a weapon of Satan’s.
June 28th, 2008 at 10:47 pm
…watching your children go hungry and not being able to do anything about it.
June 29th, 2008 at 9:10 am
our generation’s chance to shine.
June 29th, 2008 at 11:24 am
an opportunity to make a difference.
June 29th, 2008 at 11:39 am
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.
June 29th, 2008 at 1:18 pm
Having the disease of “affluence” and no hope.
Beth
June 29th, 2008 at 2:38 pm
rotten. Stinkin’ rotten.
June 29th, 2008 at 8:27 pm
Poverty is a blessing waiting to happen.
June 29th, 2008 at 8:53 pm
is an opportunity to put our hope in Christ and allow Him to use us to bring about change.
June 30th, 2008 at 5:33 am
Desperation. Believing that there’s a chance you may not be alive next month and that you cannot provide the necessities to sustain life.
June 30th, 2008 at 9:09 am
a vicious cycle that traps and separates humanity.
June 30th, 2008 at 9:56 am
Poverty is…a reminder of what we are to be to the world: the arms of Christ and the Hope that He is.
July 2nd, 2008 at 7:40 am
a lack of opportunity
July 8th, 2008 at 6:49 pm
unmet needs without a hold to pull one’s self up
July 9th, 2008 at 3:43 am
lack of choices.
July 9th, 2008 at 5:08 pm
…a chance to respond to God’s calling us.
July 10th, 2008 at 4:53 pm
…a need for patience to be healed.
July 28th, 2008 at 6:17 am
Wow Amanda. I love your comment. We do have the type of poverty here in America…
August 20th, 2008 at 9:50 pm
shaming,heartbreaking,an extremely hard cycle to break,living in a car for a week.
September 1st, 2008 at 9:50 pm
…what hurts the dreamer.
September 3rd, 2008 at 2:12 pm
…my fault.
September 3rd, 2008 at 5:49 pm
Poverty to me is both financial and physical. Therefore, Poverty is: Not having anyone or anything.
March 28th, 2009 at 8:38 am
…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!!!!!!!