You would think that feeding the hungry would be something that would be primary on the minds of us as human beings, but it slips too many times. According to www.stopthehunger.com, there are more than one billion people who are undernourished in the world.
There are those that will blame regimes. There are those that will blame opposing factors. There are those that will present a myriad of excuses.
We... no... I must ask myself what I have done to help end the undernourishment in the world. According to the same website above, we as a country spend over twice as much on weight loss products as we would need to spend to feed the hungry of the world.
There have been countless financial gurus who have spoken about the ability of the common man to save a great deal of money by cutting out little luxuries such as high class coffee and the like. What if we were able to save some money in order to help feed the hungry?
That's the premise of www.fastforhaiti.com. The idea is that you would fast and then take the money that you would have spent and donate it to the organization of your choice that would then use it to help relieve the suffering in Haiti. What strikes me as sad is that we needed an earthquake to draw attention to a nation with an unemployment rate between 70-80%.
If we are who we are meant to be, if we are walking with the Grace of God, then why are we not drawn to the emergencies that lie around us? Why are we not able to see the hunger and devastation around us for what it is?s
"If you will look into your own heart in complete honesty, you must admit that there is one and only one reason why you are not a saint: you do not wholly want to be." - William LawI've heard numerous people vocally wonder where God is during the earthquake in a place like Haiti. How can God allow such a thing to happen?
When I think about the quote that started the entire project from William Law I hear the answer echo.
I was hungry and this was the only way I could get your attention.Maybe if we wholly desired sainthood, we would see the hungry that are right before us.
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