While we're on the death topic...

Yeah, death sucks. I learned yesterday and today that a ton of kids die cause they have no food. We're talkin a heckofalotta kids here. 29,000 per day in fact. That's alot more than it sounds like. Crazy. Here we are, with America's problems with being overweight and all, totally unthankful for what we have [of course there are exceptions to this, I'm talking mostly about mainstream America here] and even less aware of what's goin on in the world around us. We need to pay attention. We need to give until it hurts. We need to give up some of our luxuries in everyday life to help a little kid we don't know and will never see live another day. Like it says in Matthew 25:45...

"He will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these you did not do for me.'"

You know who said that? A really smart guy named Jesus. He happened to know a few things about this world and how we screwed it up and how to make it better again. When He's talkin about the "least of these", He's referring to the hungry, the sick, the naked, the stranger, basically anybody who has a need you can meet. We can meet alot more people's needs than we think. It doesn't cost much of anything to feed a kid like those I spoke of before for a week. 7$ in fact. That's like less than lunch in some cases. A whole week! Helping save a kid's life! Here's a link to World Vision, the people in charge of collecting donations and such.

Next topic? Lent I think...

posted by dave @ 1:52 PM