Poverty or Deprivation

My new definition for poverty is "deprivation". it can come in financial, emotional, physical ways or in just the inability or absence of those resources. i worked with a number of kids in the NE okc area which were terribly deprived. technically they had enough "money" to make it, but were terribly deprived or impoverished in other ways. no one was going hungry for food....but there is plenty of hunger for love, affection, relationship, God, etc. i find this a lot with my work now in the group homes. these kids have been "deprived" of all of the above + they are deprived of cognitive ability. God has begun revealing to me that my ministry isn't currently in a church setting, but in a setting where i can "prive" (opposite of deprive) or "privilege" some of these kids with what they are missing....affection, attention, relationship, etc. or teach their staff to do same. Poverty gets all the press, but i think deprivation is where it's at... often deprivation comes with oppression, but that's another set of thoughts!