TOO SHALLOW

In her ‘Maxim Institute’ column  called “Ending Child Poverty”Jane Sillloway Smith in THE NORTHERN AGE, Tuesday, March 27, 2013, says that discussing the material deprivations of Child poverty is too shallow.

She is pointing us too the poverty of:

1. addiction,

2. abuse,

3. lack of work,

4. poor education,

5. loss of hope,

6. broken relationships.

She says that “more than  money” is required to address the above mentioned poverty properly.

And here are her own words: “They require dedicated and compassionate neighbors, communities and social service providers – our hearts and our hands as well as our wallets.”

STILL TOO SHALLOW

I think there is still “a shallowness in this current discussion”.

Our  greatest poverty is that our relationship with our creator is broken. It needs to be repaired. The Lord Jesus Christ died on the cross and repaired the relationship. Once our relationship with our creator is repaired through the Lord Jesus Christ we have hope. God is our Father and we are his children.

We can ask him to help us with everything: addiction, abuse, lack of work, poor education, loss of hope and broken relationships.)