It is said that in Hollywood there is an exclusive school attended by children of movie stars, producers and directors. One day a teacher in that school asked her very privileged pupils to write a composition on the subject of poverty. One little girl started her literary piece like this: “Once there was a poor little girl. Her father was poor, her mother was poor, her nanny was poor, her chauffer was poor, her butler was poor. In fact, everybody in the house was very, very poor.”

I don’t think that little girl had ever been exposed to anyone who was truly poor.

It reminds me, though, of a “Peanuts” cartoon by Charles Schultz many years ago. Schultz was a devout Christian as many of you will remember.

In this particular cartoon Snoopy is shivering out in a snow storm beside an empty foo…