Poverty is a state of mind.

Hello world. The following was written 12/29/2020.

A brother asks, “When the world takes your home away, are you going to be Hand-Out Homeless? Or Hard-Core Homeless?”

My response, “My Husband and I have been homeless for a year and a half now by society standards as we are living in an RV. After losing our home we have had to work hard for every single thing we now have. In the last year we have busted our butts to fix things that were broken or needed repairs and have done trade work for some of those items. In the year and a half we have earned 8 165 watt solar panels, batteries, and all the components that go with solar and batteries. We have really worked hard to get everything we now have. None of it was free. All of it was paid for with hard earned money, blood, sweat and tears literally.

By the way, we do not consider ourselves homeless as we DO have a home. Our home is this RV and it supplies us shelter from the storms, a place to rest and to maintain ourselves and prepare the foods we would partake of. Poverty is a state of mind. By societies standards I am impoverished. Yet I tell you I am truly rich for I have all I need and am provided what I may need when I need it. I want for nothing because I have what I need and not what I think or believe is needed… Big difference between those two. The what is needed and what is believed to be needed…”

My brother responds, “You have far surpassed my test, madam.”