According to the U.N. there are now over 1 billion people in the world who are hungry each day. The financial crisis around the globe has added over 100 million people to the list of the daily hungry around the globe.
That is one in six or one in seven people in the world who doesn’t have enought to eat each day. A disproportionate number of those are children and women. Amazingly, as I read a number of newspapers today, this headline was tucked down below the movie reviews and news about the rainout at the US Open.
The article said, “A hungry world is a dangerous world,” Sheeran said. “Without food, people have only three options: They riot, they emigrate or they die. None of these are acceptable options.”
That is a great line to conider. A hungry world is a dangerous world. If nothing else, as we sit down to our plentiful meals three times a day we shoudl at least remember the billion people around the world who simply won’t have that privilege today. If nothing else let’s be reminded of our plenty and maybe if we remind ourselves enough times, we will actually be willing to bless those who need it out of our plenty.
June 21, 2009 at 10:30 am
You’ve got a loud “AMEN” over here in NC, brother.