I am way backed up on blogs that I'd like to be writing. I've got one, half written and a bunch more sitting in my head and camera. But life keeps on moving and amazing things are happening around me that I don't want to forget.
Like the conversation I had with Asher yesterday. We had a day packed with activities. I had many errands to run and just enough time to fit them in. I told the boys in the morning about all the excitement (and errands) that our day would include: Eat breakfast, go to CBS, eat lunch in the car and go straight to school, go to the bank, Walmart and CostCo, stay after school to talk with Mr. Salt, home for a bit to rest, then to the Pumpkin Patch, Chick Fil A for dinner with the Bergmans, and then boys night with Daddy while I led a bunch of outstanding 9th grade girls at church. Isaac immediately started whining, I hate Costco! Luckily, he didn't have to go. Asher was pretty excited to go. He loves the samples!
We went on with our busy day and Asher kept asking when it would be time to go to Costco (he really does love it!). We finally pulled into the parking lot and got out of the car. Here's the conversation that occurred as we were walking into the store:
Asher: Mom, are there people who don't have any food?
Me: Yes, baby, there are people who are hungry all day because they have no food.
Asher: Those people should come to Costco.
Me: Well, they don't have any money to buy food so it wouldn't help much.
Asher: Well, we have food at our house.
Me: You're right. Jesus says that when you have extra food you should give it to people who have none.
Asher: Those people who are hungry should come to our house.
Me: You're right. We should share our food with them.
It didn't occur to me that this was the exact thing we were talking about at church last night. We're partnering with Compassion International and fighting this war on hunger. Did you know that 854 million people around our world are undernourished. But we can do something about this! Thirteen dollars will feed one child for a month. If you skip one meal, one day and donate that five dollars to this cause, you could make a huge dent in the world's hunger problem. Asher says we should do something about this. I'm on it.
Hunger from One Meal One Day on Vimeo.
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