Everyone living in Poverty didn’t start off there.
Many with a very nice income, just like you: a two-car garage, a boat, the perfect life– three kids, a fenced-in yard, and a dog. Then all in a sudden-reality hits you. It may have taken you years to reach the middle or high-income level, but it only takes twoquick New York seconds to enter the danger zone of poverty.
The arrogance of taking your immediate financial stability for granted: lack of planning for the unimaginable, the unforeseen, the unpredictable, and that one uneventful occurrence. This leads to financial tension, stress, and pressure, it has led to the destruction of the family’s relationship and ultimate divorce.
The Chief Misconception is that it couldn’t happen to you. Poverty has no respect of person or position, once you enter that zone it seems there is on way out-it’s like a black hole, it keeps sucking you in deeper and deeper.
- Poor: Lacking material possessions, less than adequate, inferior in quality or value, humble, unpretentious, unproductive, indifferent, and unfavorable.
- Persistent: Existing for a long or longer than usual time or continuously: as retaining beyond the usual period, continuing without change in function or structure, effective in the open for an appreciable time usual, through slow volatilizing, degrading slowly by the environment, remaining infective for a relatively long time in a vector after an initial period of incubation, in-spite-of interference or treatment.
- Poverty is: INDIGENCE, PENURY, WANT, DESTITUTION – Poverty is–more than Poor. The state of one who lacks a usual or socially acceptable amount of money or material possessions. Poverty may cover a range from extreme want of necessities to an absence of material comforts. Indigence implies seriously straitened circumstances, Penury suggests a cramping or oppressive lack of money. Want and Destitution imply extreme poverty that threatens life itself through starvation or exposure.
- Webster Collegiate Dictionary: Poor & Poverty
True Story:
He didn’t lack knowledge, but the lacked (lost) the capacity, and the ability to apply. His name was John, he was well known as the downtown homeless man. Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter. John persisted to exist for a longer than usual time-continuously-degrading slowly by ‘his’ environment.
The last time I spoke with John it was about 90 degrees outside. John reached into a Restaurant dumpster and was eating out of a plastic bag which contained: pancakes & syrup, red beans & rice, cottage cheese, broccoli, hot sauce, steak, onions, milk, beets and corn flakes-table scrap.
The steam from the 90 degree temperature produced an indescribable odor. With tears in my eyes I asked “John are you all right”, he said –“No”–. That was the last time I ever saw John.
Extreme Poverty threatens Life itself, through Starvation and Exposure.
please take note (MANY agencies and people tried helping John throughout the years) At one point in his life, John was a regular person just like you and I, he was not always an alcoholic or a victim of hopelessness. – be careful –
That ONE Uneventful Occurrence can subject you to the Devastation of Poverty.
- Appreciate what you have and don’t envy. Your lack of Appreciation will cause you to lose what you now have.
- Be Grateful for what you have: a roof over your head, food daily, and clean clothes-these are blessings.
- Be Patient to Prosper, don’t let Greed turn you into a Monster of Moral Disregard for Human Life. Love one another. A good Heart will get you Everything you need.
- Don’t take your financial income for granted, don’t become arrogant. Plan for the unforeseen-the unimaginable.
- Don’t look down on others because you don’t know where they came from, maybe up there, where you are now.
No one in their right mind would willfully die from Exposure and Starvation.
The Hopeless need all of the Compassion that this world can give, without judgement.
Believe in God more-than you believe in your Circumstances.
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Show Compassion every day and be kind to someone, it’s free and it might even make you feel good.
Be Blessed…