Comments on: Living at Poverty Level https://lucindajkinsinger.com/living-at-poverty-level/ Movement, Color, Sound, Story Sat, 16 May 2020 20:41:43 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 By: Lucinda J https://lucindajkinsinger.com/living-at-poverty-level/#comment-2700 Fri, 10 Jun 2016 17:33:34 +0000 https://lucindajkinsinger.com/?p=3301#comment-2700 In reply to shirleyhs.

I find friends who disagree with me in some areas are often the best sort. :)

]]> By: shirleyhs https://lucindajkinsinger.com/living-at-poverty-level/#comment-2699 Fri, 10 Jun 2016 15:49:04 +0000 https://lucindajkinsinger.com/?p=3301#comment-2699 In reply to lucindaj.

I agree about the ultimate questions. I also remember Matthew 25. I’m sure you do also. We are likely to disagree on the role of public policy. But that’s okay. We both have friends who disagree with us. :-)

]]> By: lucindaj https://lucindajkinsinger.com/living-at-poverty-level/#comment-2698 Fri, 10 Jun 2016 13:44:39 +0000 https://lucindajkinsinger.com/?p=3301#comment-2698 In reply to shirleyhs.

There is hunger and homelessness in this country, and I do not minimize that. Since I have only experienced my own circumstances, I wrote from that perspective. But I do believe poverty involves more than just a lack of money or material goods or even unfair labor conditions. We are more immediately the victims of our own inner demons, emotional hurts, anger issues, addictions, than we are the victims of a public policy; and even the wealthy may have areas of deep poverty in their lives. Consider the high rate of suicide among pop stars as a startling example of this. For all of us, unhappiness comes from inside ourselves and can only be solved by starting there.

]]> By: shirleyhs https://lucindajkinsinger.com/living-at-poverty-level/#comment-2697 Fri, 10 Jun 2016 00:53:15 +0000 https://lucindajkinsinger.com/?p=3301#comment-2697 Luci, your take on poverty is very interesting. I appreciate your willingness to depend on God instead of politicians and your gratitude for all that you have. Most of us have more than enough, especially compared to the millions worldwide who live on one or two dollars a day. I can appreciate your perspective. There are many people in America who are not as fortunate. There is hunger and homelessness in this country, and that is a shame.

]]> By: Lucinda J https://lucindajkinsinger.com/living-at-poverty-level/#comment-2696 Mon, 06 Jun 2016 16:57:05 +0000 https://lucindajkinsinger.com/?p=3301#comment-2696 In reply to Anonymous.

I would love to do that someday!

]]> By: Anonymous https://lucindajkinsinger.com/living-at-poverty-level/#comment-2695 Mon, 06 Jun 2016 15:38:28 +0000 https://lucindajkinsinger.com/?p=3301#comment-2695 You ought to travel over here to Kenya with Heather Kuhns. This country does put the word poverty in a new light!

]]> By: Shilah Hartman https://lucindajkinsinger.com/living-at-poverty-level/#comment-2694 Mon, 06 Jun 2016 15:14:36 +0000 https://lucindajkinsinger.com/?p=3301#comment-2694 Amen and amen! I have been thinking these same thoughts and you explained it so well…

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