Mother Theresa said that there was a great poverty of spirit and a sense of being alone, unloved, and unwanted in the world today. I agree with her. Many hunger for food yet I have found that even those hungering tend to have stronger faith than many of the wealthy. Could the greatest poverty be the poverty of the soul? Blessed are the poor.
Peace Be With You,
Debra
2006-08-16 16:51:56 · 25 answers · asked by Debra M. Wishing Peace To All 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No one is giving away anyone elses money. I give my own but that is not what this is about.
2006-08-16 16:58:21 · update #1
I think you may be right but then again there is the poverty of selflessness. The poverty of education. The poverty of good will. The poverty of tolerance.
I think that as long as the pace of the world quickens then it is the "little things" that we miss that really diminish us all.
2006-08-16 16:59:11 · answer #1 · answered by Stephen 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The greatest poverty in our country is it's very abundance. We are so focused on being materialistic and busy, that we are losing our families.
When do we sit down and eat a family meal together, without the xbox, the tv, the cell phone? When do we take time not to go to soccer camp, baseball practice, or piano lessons?
How many of us feed our children out of a bag with a big yellow M on the front as we drive through the bank line, on the way to the video store, before we get the call that dad will be in the city for at least another 2 hours.
We are starving a generation with conveniences. I can't tell you how many times this week I have heard, finally my kids are in school, they are out of my hair. These are our hope, our future, invest in them.
I was listening to a sermon that talked of a Jewish father raising his children around the dinner table. He taught them, loved them, admonished them, and listened to them. He gave them roots, likened to an olive tree that will live 2000 years if has a root that is strong in it foundation. What do our roots look like?
2006-08-16 17:24:19 · answer #2 · answered by 2ndchhapteracts 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The greatest poverty in the United States and the world is the lack of love. If we could feed the hearts with love, as easy as we can feed the hungry with food, all too soon, the hungry would become obsolete.
2006-08-16 17:09:53 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The greatest poverty in the United States -- is in the knowledge of what the Bible actually teaches -- and this is true even among church-goers.
I agree with you as well, that the greatest poverty is the poverty of the soul.
Cordially,
John
2006-08-16 16:57:48 · answer #4 · answered by John 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I remember reading that quote from Mother Theresa several years ago, and it led to much contemplation. Could I, living in the west with plenty of food and a comfortable bed, be more impoverished than the people Mother Theresa used to serve? Perhaps in many ways yes.
The last couple of years have been one of extreme difficulty for me and my family. Deaths, my daughter almost died...and through this difficult time, when all ego and individualism was stripped away, there was the loving presence of God, giving me strength and peace.
Please continue to ask questions, and peace to you and your family.
2006-08-16 17:02:03 · answer #5 · answered by Colin 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Though I have a large family, I am alone much of the time - and have no friends in the town in which I live. I do have friends elsewhere, but don't get to correspond with them very often. Sometimes my children are quite cruel, and that does hurt, but deep down I believe that they love me.
I am not homeless or starving, but barely make the bills. I feel so badly for the people who have no where to live, no food, or no decent clothing. Some of them do have religion (at the churches which feed them, etc.), but I would hate to be in their shoes.
2006-08-16 17:00:54 · answer #6 · answered by Holiday Magic 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The moral depravity that abound throughout the land. Without a good moral foundation, we have no choice to remain poor in spirit, alone and unwanted in the world.
2006-08-16 21:37:29 · answer #7 · answered by Reuben Shlomo 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
compassion, understanding , patience, kindness , forgivness and most importantly love..and im not talking about being inlove..i mean to love life , to love what we have this beautiful world, to love our fellow human being whatever color, sex,nationality, disability, imperfection, once our civilization can achieve that there are always going to be poverty..and not just hunger or homelessness but also spiritual hunger that can lead to all the evil things like hate, injustice, racism.
2006-08-16 17:03:56 · answer #8 · answered by kanto boy 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Few read the bible, less study the bible.
Very few teach the bible.
There is a great famine in this land, and the starving are lashing out.
but the starving is not for food, but for the meat of the word of God!
2006-08-16 18:29:59 · answer #9 · answered by Grandreal 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Debra, why are you looking at your belly button in the avatar?
Let's see now, poverty is the question. We have no poverty of lying politicians, we have no poverty of greedy, lustful religious leaders, we have no poverty of bigots, no poverty of moralizing bozos like me. Seems to me that we have a bountiful land and everything we need.
Oh yeah, the soul thing. Do you think bonobos and chimps have souls, they have learned to communicate symbolically and teach and learn from each other. What next?
And with you.
Bozo
2006-08-16 17:01:09 · answer #10 · answered by valcus43 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋