WHAT IS IT LIKE?

MONDAY! Hey, the first day of a new month, welcome in August of 2011....Let us rejoice of this day, for God has sent it to us for enjoyment of all the things He has given us to go with this day.... so don't go and think you invented it, not planned it ,,,,, really! He is in charge, and don't forget it! Thank You Lord for this new day, this new month, and may we celebrate you,,,, for a change!



WHAT IS IT LIKE?



To be... not really poor,,, but close to it,, you can see the back of your coat, through the front.. a little hungry, but not starving,, a little hot, but not just burning up,,, and the same with the cold, cool , but wrapped in old blankets, and warm,, and you do have a roof over your head,,a few drips here and there...but not bad,,, yes,, Mom says, we are fortunate, and rich, in each other.. so you set and wonder just how the poor makes it.. then mom makes a pot of soup, from our canned veggies,, grab a few old blankets, and yes that old hat and coat,, the one extra in the house, that hangs by the old stove, the stove used to warm, and to cook with,, yes you grab it, and then mom grabs the kids, takes a walk in the cold to the north , about 2 miles up the road, facing the cold wind, the kind you walk and bend at the same time..ever been in one of these, with a see through coat..,, so as to help out and give those things to your neighbors,the only ones within 5 miles of you,, and see if they are all right.. for they have only about half of what you have.. only and mostly the back of a coat,, only one meal every two days.. hot in summer,, and flys, wow, thousand it seems for no screens, no windows.. In the winter,, old oil paper to keep the cold out, tacked over them, and you can see right through the folds, for after winter, they take them down, refold them, and used them next winter... and they huddle around that old stove,, a little closer than us, for it is colder in there ,than at our house,,,, yes like us,, that old stove to warm by and to cook by also.. but plenty of wood , cut and stacked next to the north wall.. to help keep the cold out.. yes , mom said they were poor.. we must watch out for them ,, and help feed them.. for mom knows what it is like to be poor,, for she told me,, she once was poor..... but the one thing mom always did say, that they and us had,, was a whole lot of God, Jesus, and love of one another, family, friends, and neighbors.. and you know , I guess we were close to being just about "close to rich"! and no we did not live in D.C either and was I ever glad,,,, for they just barely made it through their debt default ,, of the whole USA.... now they are really poor...justt trying to find money ,, so all Americans could have a new coat, some more food, and fixed those windows, and roof..

but , well for us,,



THAT IS HOW IT FELT,,, THEN ,,, FOR US,,,WHEN WE WERE,,, ALMOST RICH!





Lord, thank You, for it all,,, we don't deserve You, but we sure do love You.. amen



John HIcks

You think of how ahead we are in technology today, but then you stop, ponder your past,, and then you think ,,, are we ahead, or are we going in the wrong direction, right into the poor house,,, Well now that is according to my mothers thinking,, as we make the second trip down to our "poor neighbors", with another pot of that soup!