Perspective

You know you're poor when:

• You help a friend move and you dig through their Goodwill pile like it's Christmas.


• All the items on your wish list are things you need and not actually want.


• You are forced to participate in "No Shave November" because you can't afford razor refills.


• You don't have gas money to get to the food pantry.


• You have to use shampoo to wash your laundry.


• You use duct tape to fix a problem in your car.

You know you're rich when:

• You are surrounded by people who you love and love you back.


• There are people that care about how you are REALLY doing.


• You have Brothers and Sisters that have your back in a tough time.


• God's joy runs through you despite rough circumstances.


• You are a child of the King of Kings.


• You are able to have fun anytime, anywhere.

These things are all straight from my life. It's all about perspective though. Do I choose to focus on the things that make me "poor" or those bullets that describe the great "wealth" that I have been given. I prefer to focus on what really matters. Though I may be poor by the standards of this world; I am very rich in spiritul blessings and the things that the Lord looks at.



Better a poor man whose walk is blameless

than a rich man whose ways are perverse.

Proverbs 28:6