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Here is a picture of my dinner tonight. Actually, this is also what I ate for my lunch today. Actually, this is what I ate for breakfast today as well.
This weekend many of our teens, from the challenge of Brian Smeltzer, will be eating beans and rice throughout the weekend. He invited anyone from our church to take the challenge with them also. I know of many families and adults who will be participating this weekend.
My family will be in Colorado this weekend at my sister’s wedding (a wedding I have been praying for during the last 15 years by the way). All six of us will be in the wedding. Should be a great time.
Because we will be gone this weekend, we decided that we would participate in this exercise early (yesterday and today). It has been very interesting. Our two oldest kids participated with Kathy and myself. Our second grade child lasted one day and our third grade child last both days. I am very proud of them both.
It is estimated that nearly 16,000 children die of starvation every day (click here for hunger facts). What a concept in the 21st Century. Nearly half of the world has a regular diet of beans and rice. It is considered a luxury to simply have food. The point of our exercise is to place ourselves in the shoes of many in our world (at least in the arena of food).
These last two days have been a little more challenging than I first anticipated. God has shown me many things, however. I will not share them at this point becuase many will be taking the challenge this weekend. It has been very good.
Here are a couple of websites Brian passed to me that are related to this topic. I encourage you to check them out.
Beans and Rice Link (click here)
Advent Conspiracy Link (click here) (several very compelling short videos regarding Christmas – particularly the one called “Enter the Story”)