Frustration

I was soooo frustrated last week. My internet was not working properly. I felt a bit stranded as I was having a hard time sending and receiving emails. I couldn’t do research or go shopping from the convenience of my office chair. I tried posting last week’s blog entry as I was continuously rejected. (If you look below this entry you will see I finally posted it.)

After my internet was working again, I calmed down and realized how silly my frustration was. We have been in the middle of a study on poverty. I was reminded that people around the world travel miles a day on foot just to get water or work very hard to obtain food for the day. Here I am annoyed that I can not post a journal entry for everyone to read. Crazier yet, I was annoyed by the thought that I may actually have to go to the library to look up some information or use the telephone or postal service instead of using my email.

I hope our current study has inspired you to take a look at your life and rethink the way you think and act. I know it has for me. I thoroughly enjoyed our discussion this past week. I have posted some of the scripture and quotes we talked about in case you would like to look back at them.

- Peter

“We can not understand the poor until we understand what poverty is like.”
– Mother Teresa

“In the poor we see Jesus in his most distressing disguises.”
– Mother Theresa

“If someone steals a person's cloths we call them a thief. But shouldn’t we give the same name to the person who could cloth the naked, but doesn’t.”
- Basil the Great

“There is enough for the world’s need, but there is not enough for the world’s greed.
- Gandhi

“The tragedy is not that the rich don’t care for the poor. The tragedy is that the rich do not know the poor.”
– Shane Claiborne

Matthew 25:31-46
1st John 3:16-18
I Corinthians 13:13