Give us this day...

Today I was eating a chocolate chip cookie after lunch thinking to myself, well, I might as well live it up since I'm going to be eating goat and bananas for the next 3 months. Even though I was full, I had to indulge and finish the cookie anyway.

I just read a news article that said that there are now officially 1 billion people that are malnourished in the world today. That's over 100 million more than there was last year. That's 1 out of every 6 people.

Suddenly, that cookie brought my perspective back to the amazing privilege I have to go and prayerfully to bring some hope and healing to the children that have been through the pain of watching their family members suffer and die because of a treatable waterbourne illness, or becuase they were starved to death.

It's not really a matter of feeling guilty because I'm rich and can eat a chocolate chip cookie when I want to, and they can't. It's a matter of being truly grateful and thanking the Lord that we have food to feed our children and that we don't have to bear that kind of a burden.

Wow, Lord, You are truly our ultimate Provider and thank you for giving us this day our daily bread...