Lawmakers Find $21 a Week Doesn't Buy a Lot of Groceries

[JWithers]

Originally Posted by AKA_Monet

But how do you do that with a helicopter going over your area of living and police or ambulance sirens constantly going off?

How do you do that, when your parents don't read or cannot read English so they never thought to tell you a requirement to fillout any forms and which forms do you speak of that they can understand in plain language--cultural competency, perhaps?

How do you do anything when an adult hits you and uses verbally abusive language all the time or sexually abuses you because you are the foster child that everyone but the State gave up on you??? In fact we have several cases of foster parents being pedophiles in my state. I doubt we are an exception.

So, if you are a woman of Faith, then you know all about compassion! Wonderful!!! And it doesn't just occur on a bracelet! Really, with your statements, are you practicing what you preach? And no, I believe God uses people to exact His will to glorify His name.

As I understand it, my state does not have welfare. They have WIC, they have some low income subsidies and housing that has over 1000s people on the waiting list to move into the housing...

Most people do die on the streets... Quite a few of them under 30 years old.

Where does one get educational opportunity to access any school without a computer these days when the public library restricts one's time on that said computer.

I don't know where you have lived, nor do I know your personal experiences, but I do know that you have a heartless view of people in general and I would never wish that on my worse enemy to suffer the plights that I have witnessed. I have lived a fairly decent life and I could not want for nothing, but I have seen injustices.

And because of my blessings, I was taught in Sunday school to pass it on to those who have less than me. And on many levels, I give suffering people those Spiritual needs of "living water".

All people can be uplifted. And for you to make the kinds of statements in response to my comments, it is one thing to disagree on equally yoked people, but it is totally another on impoverished people. And your "poverty"--one of the soul--how can I lift your life up?

No, you do not know me, nor do you know my life experience.

You do not have permission to judge me or judge the quality of my faith. That alone is displeasing to God.

I simply stated that education is available to people in the most impoverished circumstances. Liz Murray, the daughter of herion addicts, was neglected and abused since infanthood. She was placed in foster care, where she was repeatedly assualted. And yet, somehow, She had the drive and the will to go to school, make good grades and get into Harvard. Flippin' HARVARD!

She didn't blame me for her circumstance. She didn't cry, "I can't do it because no one will help me". She made her life work. SHe took the crappy hand life dealt her and refused to let it hold her back.

You do not , I repeat, not, know me. You do not know what contributions I make to my community and you do not know where I sit with my Lord. Don't you judge me, it is not your place. I teach Sunday School, too, and also lead a ministry for teens in crisis. So keep your self-righteous rhetoric to yourself. You speak in hyperbole and and speak knowingly of what you know not.

And I agree, we are here for His glory. How is it glorifying Him to say, "I can't , it's too hard". If thats how you feel , you just go ahead and throw God's gift in His face. But I thank Him everyday, even when I buried a child, even when I thought I couldn't go on, I thanked Him and I got up, moved on and praised His name.

You do not know me, you have no right to judge me and I will respectfully ask you to not do so again. My soul is not impoverished, it is full, my cup runneth over. In the face of every pain I have suffered I stand here and tell you 'God is good'.

I still stand strong on what I said. An education is available to anyone with the will to obtain it.

The fact that you feel the need to cast aspersions on another's faith tells me that maybe you are not filled with the Spirit.