...when you endlessly deprive of food, having nothing, absolute nothing to fill you and you are powerless, yet surrounded by many of the same.
...when you have no shelter, no refuge during thunderstorm still you stroll on the street aimlessly, at each corner
you see lonely souls, downcast alike.
...when you have nothing to shield you from glaring mid-day sun or keep you warm from cold winter night, everywhere you turn to you see nakedness.
I asked, why, why is there poverty?. While hunger, homeless, clothless.... are the very symptoms of poverty, but what, what is the root? Wess Stafford answered. He stunned me. Hear him and hear him well.
...when you have no shelter, no refuge during thunderstorm still you stroll on the street aimlessly, at each corner
you see lonely souls, downcast alike.
...when you have nothing to shield you from glaring mid-day sun or keep you warm from cold winter night, everywhere you turn to you see nakedness.
I asked, why, why is there poverty?. While hunger, homeless, clothless.... are the very symptoms of poverty, but what, what is the root? Wess Stafford answered. He stunned me. Hear him and hear him well.
Never at all it occurs to me that Poverty springs from HOPELESSNESS - in the heart of a child when he/she believes that I have no future, I am worthless, I do not matter, I am garbage, I have no control, I am not loved. Scary that poverty in a society revolves endlessly in a circle - a curse, when generation after generation believes in the unrelenting lies of the above.
How then shall we break the cycle of poverty?
There are millions, millions in poverty everywhere, I know I am powerless toward the millions. But one, if a tiny little seed of HOPE is planted in a child’s heart, it will indeed breaks the cycle. For a new generation is birthed next. That's incredibly wonderful.
My heart is touched. My hand is moved!
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