America-Poor.

Wikipedia says poverty is deprivation of common necessities that determine the quality of life, including food, clothing, shelter and safe drinking water, and may also include the deprivation of opportunities to learn, to obtain better employment to escape poverty, and/or to enjoy the respect of fellow citizens.

Deprivation of common necessities that determine the quality of life.  That’s kind of funny, and open to debate.  Lately I have seen homeless people around here talking on cell phones.  Does that mean they aren’t living in poverty?  I don’t know.  What I do know is the definition of poverty in America is probably a little different than most of the world.

I have been “american poor”.  I never ate dirt.  Being america poor, means bread and rice.  America poor means P.O.S car.  America poor, means hand-me-downs, and salvation army.  I went to Costa Rica.  You can find images of my trip here. From what I understand it gets worse.

What can we do to help?  I have written about it before, but I will write about it again.  Love.  If we all truly love each other, then would there be poverty?  Do I believe that?  Yes.  I believe that if true love were to take over our hearts and control our actions, then wealth would be spread.  If we would all allow the Love of Christ to shine through, there wouldn’t even be a question, the world would change dramatically.

The stock market is down?  So what?  I have food, my neighbors have food, my enemies have food. Gas prices are high?  So what?  My neighbors have a way to get from A to B, my enemies have a way to get from A to B.

You get what I’m saying?  Do something.  You don’t have to feed the world.  You don’t have to change the world.  All you have to do is change your heart.  One person could be affected by you.  One person could finally feel the Love of Christ because of you.  It is kind of our duty to do that…. right?

We are the body of Christ.  We are his hands, feet, eyes, ears, and heart.  Doesn’t always feel like it does it?

If you want to make a change check out Compassion, or check out my page to see what our community has done so far.

If compassion isn’t your bag of tea, then find something else to do.  For a list of things you can do to change the world and sperad the love, check out my Fiance’s site.  She’s got the whole shabang there.