Thank God we were poor

Mark 14: 7 “Jesus saith, For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always.”

Children in the 1950’s mostly grew up in limited environments. That’s a politically correct way of saying we were “dirt poor.” As a child I did not realize how hard the struggle was for my dad to put food on the table for our family.

There was no such thing as politically correct then because very few, if any, had time to consider being offended by someone’s opinions, beliefs or words. The men worked and mothers stayed home and cared for the house and children. There were no social programs to finance the lives of those that could not or would not work.

The thought of being poor really didn’t occur to me or any of those my age because we did not know we