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Food For Thought


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Ironically “food for thought” day falls on World Food Day, at least according to my church planning calendar. Did you wake up this morning with your stomach growling and think “I hope I find something to eat today.”?  Have you been preoccupied today thinking about where your next meal will come from? Are you kept awake at night praying about what your children during the summer when they aren’t in school for two meals a day?

The reality is that perhaps some who read this blog can answer yes to one or all of the questions above. The other reality is that the rest of us can’t, even on our worst day, answer yes to the questions above. Food is bountiful and scant all at the same time. There are some who through food away by the plateful because they cannot fit anymore into their body and there are others who pray that they get to a restaurant dumpster before someone else.

World Food Day- there is a website http://www.worldfooddayusa.org/ LOADED with information about what this day is about and how you can get involved? I will confess my own ignorance; I saw it on my calendar but didn’t do any investigating to see what I could do differently today. According to the site there were 428 events happening all over the United States today as part of this initiative to end hunger.  

My question- the thought I would like you to chew on for a little while.

When you watch the news tonight will you see anything about World Food Day and the good things people did and are doing for this cause?

Ok, I have another question. When we will (all of us together) become so outraged that these kinds of things aren’t given MORE and BETTER “airtime” (radio, television, newspaper) than which politician we shouldn’t vote for because he/she isn’t as “Christian” as the other.

What do you think? Did you know that today was World Food Day? http://www.worldfooddayusa.org/

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