1 in 25

Here is just an example of statistics I mentioned in my last post.

In the town I live and go to school in 39.2% of the its residents are living below the poverty line. There are 1049 students at the local public high school. Which means 400 of those same kids are living off an income less than that of which their threshold suggests. That means 1 in every 25 kids, or at least one teenager in every single one of my classes have that need.

 So either I can look at that kid in my biology class as 1 in 7 billion, or as 1 in 25. I don't think it is hard to decided which seems less overwhelming.

I feel confident God has placed me in this community for a reason. I believe it is no coincidence that I moved here to interact with these specific 1049 lives daily. I feel confident it is part of God's will for me to have even the slightest impact on my classmates. And I pray I will live up to that calling to the best of my ability.

Ephesians 3:20-"Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than we could ever ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us."