“Blessed are those who are generous, because they feed the poor.”

Recently, Northwestern college’s cafeteria, “Cafe Naz,” has been weighing the food everyone wastes from their meals, just cause.  It made me start to think, “wow, we really waste a lot of food!”  You always hear people say to not waste your food because there are people all over the world who don’t get to eat.  It’s usually not hard to shrug off that comment because we are selfish and it’s very easy to attain that necessity, food.  It’s not easy for everyone though, which is really sad.   There are families all over the world who suffer and are malnourished because they don’t have money to feed themselves.

I went to Feed My Starving Children tonight with my youth group and God just began to re-open my eyes to the hurt that is around me.  For those of you who don’t know, Feed My Starving Children is a Christian organization that packages food, with the help of volunteers, and sends them to malnourished families over the world.  One package of food is able to feed six people, and tonight our group boxed enough packages to feed 44 children for a year.  Praise God! It was amazing to just be with friends while serving God, and know that the work we were doing is going to build up the Kingdom.   It was really heart-breaking to see all the suffering, but it was sweet to see the enthusiasm of the friends I was working with and the passion they have for Jesus.  We can rejoice that God has, and is, providing opportunities to feed the hungry and impoverished.

God, open up my eyes to the things unseen.  And, show me how to love, like You, have loved me.

-Dan

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~ by dharps on January 22, 2009.