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Judging Poverty
Posted on December 9, 2009 at 3:35pm. 1 Comment
I was meeting a friend for lunch today and during our discussion we were talking about blogs and other sites we read on a regular basis. I’ve recently started using a feed reader so I can quickly glance articles and blog posts from sites I frequent to see if anything catches my eye. So, when I got back to my office I pulled up my feed reader from google and gave it a glance. I noticed a post from a blog I used to read every day, but I haven’t read in a while. The blog is called Stuff Christians Like written by John Acuff in Atlanta.
Todays post was called, “Judging who is poor enough for our charity.” I decided to pull up the full post and was impacted by what he had to write. Please understand that he uses a heavy dose of sarcasm in his posts which is very purposeful.
You can read his post here: http://stuffchristianslike.net/2009/12/1642/
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RJ
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Rebecca 12/09/2009, 4:54pm
I am guilty of this even after taking a fantastic class in grad shcool on Poverty and the Family and I should know better. However, how many times do we say that “poverty is relative?” And the conversation that ensues is something like “poor people here don’t know how good they have it?” After all I think for a family our size the the poverty line is around $30,000 or a little less and half the world lives on $2 per day… So if you look at it from this point some do appear to be more deserving… but deserving of what? I think that is why this whole journey has to be one of boldness and prayer. Maybe the first step is giving a gift for the Angel Tree and then a trip to rural Appalachia, and then a trip to Ethiopia- not to see who is more deserving but to see Christ reflected on every face.