Tonight on my way home from Lifetree Cafe, I stopped to grab a fried chicken special from our neighborhood Dillons while my husband ran after the kids who were finishing up swim practice. Eight o'clock and we were just settling down to eat dinner.
Mmmm...eight pieces of fried chicken, mashed potatoes, macaroni and cheese, and King's Hawaiian sweet rolls. All for $9.99. I watched the young man load it all up.
"I guess I'm all out of legs," he said. "Would you take some extra breasts instead?" Jackpot.
Driving home with the aroma of fried chicken in the air, I needed to snap my armband a few times to remind myself to be grateful for my one daily serving.
The abundance to which we are privy is grossly unfair when you consider the hunger that others suffer.
I don't know why this weighed on my mind so much. I've turned it over and over. Maybe it is the fact that our food problems boil down to suffering with eating white meat when we were hungry for dark. And this guy was actually apologetic about it.
Don't get me wrong. I am grateful to live here. Incredibly grateful!
But I struggle with the fact that we have been given so much...and yet for most of us our daily lives are about accumulating more rather than helping out the others.
I don't know why this weighed on my mind so much. I've turned it over and over. Maybe it is the fact that our food problems boil down to suffering with eating white meat when we were hungry for dark. And this guy was actually apologetic about it.
Don't get me wrong. I am grateful to live here. Incredibly grateful!
But I struggle with the fact that we have been given so much...and yet for most of us our daily lives are about accumulating more rather than helping out the others.
This isn't a free ride, folks. One day we will have to answer for our actions.
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