Giving Thanks
Earlier this week I listened to an audio clip from Harry Chapin relative to Thanksgiving food drives. You know the ones. Everyone in school brings cans of food, bags of rice, and oh yeah, remember the sacks of potatoes? They weighed so much that the class that brought them always won.
Anyway, for one or two days a year, including Christmas, the poor and the homeless eat well. Big deal. I agree totally with Harry. We should be worrying about the remaining 363 days of the year. Let’s feed people then. Let’s come up with a plan. Let’s get to the bigger issue which is why the richest country in the world can not feed its poor.
So kids, we know you are well meaning. Heck, so was I when I sent my hundred bucks to the Union Gospel Mission this year. But maybe, just maybe, there is a bigger issue here.
