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Spiritual Poverty and Its Impact

The speaker defines poverty as a chronic condition caused by multiple risk factors that affects people mentally, physically, and spiritually. They discuss seven types of poverty but focus on "spiritual poverty," being poor in spirit. They use the metaphor of an arch to illustrate how having poverty in the spirit causes a person's life, like the arch, to collapse. Just as the keystone is needed to hold an arch together, having Jesus Christ is needed to prevent a person's life from falling into ruin if their spirit is poor. The speaker encourages focusing on spiritual nourishment through scripture reading and study in order to bring more peace and happiness into one's life.

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Spiritual Poverty and Its Impact

The speaker defines poverty as a chronic condition caused by multiple risk factors that affects people mentally, physically, and spiritually. They discuss seven types of poverty but focus on "spiritual poverty," being poor in spirit. They use the metaphor of an arch to illustrate how having poverty in the spirit causes a person's life, like the arch, to collapse. Just as the keystone is needed to hold an arch together, having Jesus Christ is needed to prevent a person's life from falling into ruin if their spirit is poor. The speaker encourages focusing on spiritual nourishment through scripture reading and study in order to bring more peace and happiness into one's life.

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  • Poverty Begins in The Mind

Poverty Begins in The Mind

a speech by Vinz Dallin Leviste Villarosa

The word poverty provokes strong emotions and many questions. But I define poverty as a

chronic and debilitating condition that results from multiple adverse synergistic risk factors and

affects the mind, body, and soul. However, some define it, poverty is complex; it does not mean

the same thing for all people. For the purposes of my speech, I want to share with you

experiences where we can see seven types of poverty: situational, generational, absolute, relative,

urban, rural, and SPIRITUAL. But I want to focus more in being poor in spirit, Spiritual Poverty.

Because the way I see it, being poor in spirit affects all of the major types of poverty, like a

building tumbling and crashing down into its doom.

Down through history, poverty has been one of humankind’s greatest and most widespread

challenges. Its obvious toll is usually physical, but the spiritual and emotional damage it can

bring may be even more debilitating. As I have pondered the phrase poor in spirit, it has hit me

pretty hard that, in our modern society, we so marginalize and disdain poverty that we probably

miss much of the meaning embedded in the phrase poor in spirit as a desirable trait. Therefore, I

started thinking about the implications of poverty: what it means not as defined in the dictionary,

but rather in practical terms. In other words, I started thinking about what it means to BE poor? I

want all of you guys to imagine a stone arc, most ancient arcs weren’t paved with concretes such

as today, so it’s likely cramped with other stones to stay in one peace. The foundation or so-

called Springers holds to arc to prevent it from natural disasters such us flood, and earthquake.

The side part or what we call Voussoir connects the springers and to what we call a keystone

where it is placed in the upper center part of the arc. The keystone has a major role in keeping

the arc together, without the keystone, the whole arc goes down. Just like our lives, if we are
poor in spirit, poor in our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, our arc goes down, our lives go down.

The Springers represent our temporal needs in which can be in no use if the Keystone is gone,

same goes with the Voussoir. This is a huge example and comparison if none of us work out our

spiritual needs, with poverty living and thriving in our spirit, we lose all of the joyous blessings

we could’ve had.

Before I end my speech, I would like to encourage everyone to feed our souls by starting our day

right through simply reading more on the scriptures, take more time in our studies, and focusing

more on the Savior. I testify, if you do these changes, this will greatly affect your lives. Having

more peace, and happiness.

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