Slan! That is the Irish Gaelic word for goodbye!!!

Are you "starving"?

"I'm Staaaaarving!" It's a phrase used all too often. I didn't know what starving was...

Now I do. The next time my stomach growls I am going think about what I say. I challange you to also.

poverty and world hunger

I just looked up videos of poverty and world hunger on Youtube. It is blight that is so wrong! Some of the images were just...inhuman. It is the most tragic, sad thing I have ever seen. While I eat three meals a day and waste food, there are skeletons walking around. It hurts. It should hurt more. It should hurt so bad that I do everything in my power to make a difference. This is my prayer. Maybe I can't feed a hundred, but I can feed one. If everyone will say that, look at how many people will get fed! Let's make a difference. I am not sure where to start. Well I guess that answers itself. Start with prayer.

"Give me your eyes for just one second
Give me your eyes so I can see
Everything that I keep missing
Give me your love for humanity
Give me your armes for the broken hearted
The ones that are far beyond my reach
Give me your heart for the ones forgotten
Give me your eyes so I can see"
~Brandon Heath

I am sooo excited about God! That is such an amazing feeling! I am so excited about what He is doing and what He has yet to do. The Lord is soooooo good!!!!!!

Please check out the TOM's shoes and the Radical video at the bottom of my blog.

Follow up.

I have not made any commitments to the previous post. I was simply wondering what could happen. It's something to think about and pray about anyway. Even if it makes the slightest difference it would still be a difference. I wrote that post late on night and then as I was typing it out one the computer the next day I felt like it was kind of corny. Anyhow I felt the urge to post it the night I was writing it so I went ahead and did it anyway.

Make A Difference. Drink Water.

In America we are pretty much used to having everything at our fingertips. What is a little pocket change? A coke. It's nothing to us. While it may be very satisfying to the taste buds,think about it. Is it really good for us? No. It is really not. So why do we drink it? Because we can. We have choices. Choices out the wazoo. In our homes we have milk, juice(multiple kinds. Apple, grape orange. Oh and pulp free for the picky one in the house.) tea and sometimes even carbonated beverages. Oh and I forgot to mention clean highly purified water. Sometimes bottled with a nice label or even flavored. We go out to eat and we generally have even more options. Walk through the store and you will find every kind of carbonated beverage filled with sugar, artificial flavoring, color and caffeine. We can afford to be a little unhealthy. Now let's go to a nation stricken with poverty. Let's just say Africa. In poverty stricken areas of Africa, women may walk six miles a day for water. This is not highly purified or flavored water. This water is not even as good as our tap water. No, It is water infected with disease. It probably comes from a stream or a hole in the ground. While we have choice upon choice and the only thing we stop to think about is what will satisfy our current taste bud needs, they only have two choices. In reality both options lead to the same thing. Death. Death by dehydration, or death by disease. They beg, they cry out to the earth for a drop of clean water. We choose to be unhealthy because we can get away with it. Sad but true. Is it not? This leads me to question and I hope you question too. What could we do with that loose change? What if we stopped popping it into the coke machine? What if we threw it in a jar to be used for something bigger? Could others drink clean water because I chose to drink clean water? What do you think? I think we could save the change and be the change.