Just give a little...Poverty,

Just give a little... Poverty, a social issue?

Just this week a friend and I vacationed in Duck, NC in a remotely isolated community of homes worth well into the million dollar range. One cold and rainy day as I drove from one end of the island to the other, I was catapulted into sand as a warning that there was no more road- I had to turn around or continue driving on the beach and either get washed away or abandon my vehicle as it was high tide. I couldn't help but fall into a cynical thought cycle.

On the other side of the tracks, half a dozen of my friends were busy gutting out hurricane-damaged homes in Mississippi having to plug their noses in order to keep whatever they had eaten in their stomachs. Victims of water damage, emotional subjugation, and "neglect", these home owners have persevered the storm, and what had they to show for it? Nothing.

Some might argue that poverty is strictly a social problem, purely and completely, and in my opinion "Yes" it is socially paralyzing. It is paralyzing for those who have no homes to offer hospitality, no food to suggest a meal, and no jobs or careers in order to flash their credibility. However, when capitalism begins to depend on our social obligations and moral integrity then we can surmise that poverty is a social issue.

Yes, social and unjust, it is an issue-but IF and WHEN cannot continue to be the driving force behind human negligence. I think the annhilation of 6 million Jews was a social issue at first, but that didn't keep the second World War from happening, and should it have?

I'm not suggesting a war on poverty or even a Government supported socialist takeover, but I am suggesting that "action" should be taken. Just give a little, just a little, not a lot. Let's just start to give a little. Mother Theresa began living when she realized that in order to change the world, to touch a life she would have to start one person at a time. When she decided to do just that...she never stopped. Just give a little...