WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE POOR?

AUTHOR'S NOTE: There are different kinds of poverty.

Spiritual poverty, Emotional poverty, Intellectual and Cultural Poverty

                           

 This account is about all imaginable kinds of POVERTY.                          

The most dangerous is HUNGER because it maims, kills and hardens a man's heart and soul...IF...he/she survives.

The anguish, the ever present pain at the pit of your stomach; hunger because there was not enough to eat yesterday, there will not be enough today and surely not tomorrow or the day after.

There is a Gnostic legend that a poor man wandered from place to place begging for scraps to calm his hunger in exchange for menial work. Few gave him food, even fewer gave him work.The beggar was Lucifer himself. 

"You made a fruitless sacrifice dying on the cross," he said to Jesus who was standing beside him and remained silent.

And then a little boy of about ten years old walked out from one of the larger houses. " My mother is ill and no one could come down to ask you to come in and place more wood in the fireplace. I am the eldest you see. Please come in. You can have all the food you wish plus some to take on your journey."

Jesus, who was invisible to the boy turned to Lucifer" There are more good people in the world than you think, poor deluded Lucifer. Why do you think the world has not destroyed itself yet, though it has come perilously close so many times?" 

Lucifer sneered.

"Now begone Lucifer. I will enter the house where kindness lies in the heart of so many little ones. I will help them for they surely have me in their spirit."