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Choosing to walk, the six-mile course
of a beautiful, brilliant fall afternoon
Very different than the daily struggle,
walking they do, to find food, potable water
walking in poverty, they have no choice.
But we, even in our abundance, trying, in a small way
walking with them, to remember them,
to reach out our hands, in love, in faith
to try, in this small way to help them
help them with their daily bread, with their water
walking with them, because they must

October 12, 2008
Communities Responding to Overcome Poverty (CROP) Walk,
http://www.churchworldservice.org/CROP/
Concord, NH, 10/11/08
http://www.cropwalkonline.org/site/TR/CropWalks/General?pg=entry&fr_id=2215
October 15, 2008
Blog Action Day, poverty

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