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Tag Archives: poverty
no extensions necessary – September 22
9.22.2016 a baby’s cry down the hall young child face with cap looking up from the bag lunch table next to mom. grace, hope, forgiveness, failure, care it’s all right here. no extensions necessary. —————————
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Tagged care, compassion, cry, grace, helplessness, hope, poverty, sharing
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kenya grace – December 7
12.7.2014 do you know how blessed you are the girl said? to have chocolate to drink? when I had my baby I had gruel and it was all my family could give. and then she cried, for the … Continue reading
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Tagged Africa, Christianity, gifts, girls, God, grace, gratitude, Kenya, need, poverty, pregnancy, providence, teens, third world, unwed
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It’s so cold – November 19
11.19.2014 It’s so cold Hands itch to stop The burn. Lord where are you Lord send someone to save my life One of those hands Teresa said were Christ’s The only one’s He has To make a … Continue reading
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Tagged compassion, cry, empathy, God, homeless, homelessness, Jesus, need, pain, poverty, Prayer, response
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bag lunch lady – September 4
9.4.2014 in a rain slickered coat she asks for four lunches each time, carefully weeding out the apple sauce and sweet potato chips asserting to the world and to herself that beggars can indeed be choosers. —————–
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Tagged care, charity, church, compassion, dignity, homelessness, integrity, poverty, pride, resistance
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first-world problem – August 27
8.27.2014 worst dinner out terrible service in an expensive setting. slow, graceless uncomfortable and uncaring but a first-world problem. while people starve who would wait half a day for even a nibble chalk it up. —————————-
meat and cheese, PB&J – July 31
7.31.2014 meat and cheese, PB and J menu of the morning for some, of all day how did we let it get so far away our hearts all hidden what did they say about lives gone unwanted for … Continue reading
the men that walk in – January 30
1.30 the men that walk in are the same age as me or younger we wear the same jeans, blue slightly worn. our tan winter jackets and pullover caps match. and I hand them a bag lunch or … Continue reading
santa without elves – November 8
11.8 he arrived on a bicycle, wool hat, scarf wrapped, and we shared coffee. santa without elves anymore, a life of jolly business overrun by the mistakes. and then he found Jesus, or Jesus found him. so he … Continue reading
first world problems – October 8
10.8 first world problems come at us as if they were the real thing. like a child starving in Ethiopia or a tsunami season the world hurts and cries, and we sweat the small stuff. makes you … Continue reading
due do dates – September 23
9.23 mortgage is due, baby is due, what to do when the dream has fallen through. ———————————
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Tagged bank failures, binds, courage, failings, faith, Financial Services, Mortgage, poverty, struggle, victims
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