Sunday, July 6, 2003
Sunday, July 6, 2003
Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches! Pour out your heart like
water before the presence of the Lord! Lift your hands to him for the lives of your children, who
faint for hunger at the head of every street.
In an article sometime back in the CHRISTIAN CENTURY, Tom Peterson described the tragedy
of world hunger like this:
"Imagine a DC-10 preparing to land; it is filled with preschool-age children. Some of the children
sleep; others play and laugh; still others cry out for harried flight attendants' attention. But just
before landing, something goes wrong, and the plane plummets to the ground, killing all aboard.
"Ten minutes later--even before emergency vehicles arrive--another planeload of children
crashes right next to the first. Ten minutes later, a third crashes. And the tragedies continue:
every ten minutes, a jet falls to the earth, all day and night, day after day, month after month.
"Such a great number of deaths is not farfetched. The same number of children--40,000--do die
each day from hunger-related diseases."
Let us care enough to help stop hunger.
One small way you can help feed the hungry is by clicking on this button:
(Lamentations 2.19
NRSV)
Someone has noted that the average person BLINKS his eyes 13 times every minute. This
person also noted that 13 PEOPLE STARVE TO DEATH every minute in this world. That
means, of course, that every time you and I blink our eyes, another person has died from
starvation.
Loving God, help me to do my small part in ending hunger. Amen.
