What in the world is going on?
Comments (0) “Here is a boy with five small barley loaves and two small fish,
but how far will they go among so many?”
John 6:9
My wife is out of town on one of her regular overnight visits to our daughter and 18 month old son. Sometimes I go but this time I had to stay home. As I ate my supper alone I leafed through a booklet sent by a European humanitarian mission that I serve as a Canadian board member.
Various projects were written about, complete with fascinating photos of needy people being helped through the mission. One article said that if I sent $20.00 I could buy a new pair of shoes for a shoeless child to wear in the winter.
Today at the diabetic clinic I was told by the doctor that I needed new shoes worth over 10 times the cost of a pair for a child in Russia. He told me I needed orthotics as well and that would skyrocket the cost. I never doubted I would find a way to afford the medical supplies and stave off the progress of the diabetes.
Then I flipped the page and saw that I could buy a box of food to feed a family for a month and it would only cost me $30.00. Coming home from the clinic I stopped to buy a few groceries for my wife and myself and spent over $90.00 without thinking about the expense. I usually spend more than that for one week’s food for the two of us.
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