WHAT UP!!!!
Ok, yes I can count and I realize my last post was day two and it is currently day five...I may have been out of town, and by may, I mean yes, yes I was out of town hahaha! Ah, my poor sweet Samantha, my Elisha, has been struggling in Haviland all weekend and I was just being spoiled. I know, I may have eaten some food, I'm gonna say more than a dollars worth, HOWEVER, I did not spend a penny!!! HA, man if this challenge changed from a dollar a day to you can only get food for free, I would be massive. I dont know what it is but people like to give me free food, I dont look like I'm starving, the general population is super nice! AND I'm pretty sure if you just go to a bakery at the end of the day you can get all their bread theyre gonna throw away for free! for free! Hahahaha OR you can be like sam and just take someones food at a restaurant after they leave the table! HAHAHAHAHA! Ok, I'm laughing but I myself am definitely not above that. So anyway let me tell you about my weekend... Friday was a day that I felt like I barely had any food and it was awful, I felt sick and I was tired and cranky and I started crying and I couldnt stop! Poor Seth, he had no idea what to do, but he's a good man and let me cry :)... Oh right, so friday Seth and I left for a retreat with some great people from Northridge to discuss vision for the church. Well we get to Oasis and it is BEAUTIFUL and Jeff has all this food prepared for us, and my first thought is oh no what am I going to do?! Luckily there was potato and rice soup, I had a few bites of that and I was well within my dollar for the day. Well, the following day arrived and Jeff prepared us the food for the day. I didnt really have any options to eat except for what he cooked, and so I ate, and it was good. It was also free! YAY! So, today the Binfords wanted to take Seth and I out for lunch, so we went and I ate some food, but that was my only meal for the day and again, it was free! Hahaha oh man, it makes me think about the homeless here in the U.S. there are so much "relief" out there that not only do they have options on the food they get but theyre getting fat! Other countries dont have those options, they work every day for the food they get and that's all there is, there are no outs, no soup kitchens, no people offering to buy meals, no restaurants throwing out tons of food... Can you imagine what a father must feel like when he cant adequately feed his family? I cannot even fathom the distress and the shame he would feel to see his child dying from starvation. So Lord I pray that Your Kingdom will come, and Your will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven and give us this day our daily bread. Amen.
Sunday, April 11, 2010
Thursday, April 8, 2010
DAY TWO
Greetings!
I must say, it's only day two and I am EXHAUSTED! I think I was just expecting my body to feel normal, however every tiny movement seems like a huge exasperated motion...which should have been expected. Hahahaha that expectation destroyed me today, as I was walking up the stairs I was thinking 'man this is really hard, huh how strange' not registering that my calorie intake for the entire day has only been around 600 calories. I couldnt imagine what they body feels like eating like this every day for a lifetime while doing hard physical labor for 14 hours a day, it really puts it into perspective how small of a sacrifice this really is. Even if I moved to an area of extreme poverty and lived there, I would never truly know poverty because I will always have other resources if necessary. I will always be an American, I would still have family in America, or friends, or a church, I can never know this alternate life. I am very grateful for the food I was able to eat today, every bite was just this incredible worship experience and I praised God for blessing me and fulfilling my need.
Today my food looked like this
Breakfast: one cup of black coffee $.06
1 oz of bread $.20
orange $.18
Lunch: Ramen noodles $.18
Dinner: 1 cup broccoli $.14
1/2 raisins $.16
2 tbs peanut butter $.14
Make sure you check out Sams blog for a good read, she is quite the writer!!! Thank you friends for the encouragement may the mercy and grace of Jesus be yours today!
I must say, it's only day two and I am EXHAUSTED! I think I was just expecting my body to feel normal, however every tiny movement seems like a huge exasperated motion...which should have been expected. Hahahaha that expectation destroyed me today, as I was walking up the stairs I was thinking 'man this is really hard, huh how strange' not registering that my calorie intake for the entire day has only been around 600 calories. I couldnt imagine what they body feels like eating like this every day for a lifetime while doing hard physical labor for 14 hours a day, it really puts it into perspective how small of a sacrifice this really is. Even if I moved to an area of extreme poverty and lived there, I would never truly know poverty because I will always have other resources if necessary. I will always be an American, I would still have family in America, or friends, or a church, I can never know this alternate life. I am very grateful for the food I was able to eat today, every bite was just this incredible worship experience and I praised God for blessing me and fulfilling my need.
Today my food looked like this
Breakfast: one cup of black coffee $.06
1 oz of bread $.20
orange $.18
Lunch: Ramen noodles $.18
Dinner: 1 cup broccoli $.14
1/2 raisins $.16
2 tbs peanut butter $.14
Make sure you check out Sams blog for a good read, she is quite the writer!!! Thank you friends for the encouragement may the mercy and grace of Jesus be yours today!
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
DAY ONE
Greetings friends, it is the very end of the first day of this challenge and I believe I owe a description of this project. First of all, forgive me for my lack of enthusiasm entering day one, I want this to be honoring to the Lord and not to my flesh... which brings me to state that I would be embarassed if I were to proclaim this a comparison to living in poverty (as I sit on my comfy bed, typing this on my very own computer that was freely given to me). Maybe I would get a feel for true poverty if I slept out on the street for the next six months and got all of my food by a means of dumpster diving, and I would be lying if I told you I wasnt up for that :). But this project is merely a time to recognize and pray for God's people whom He dearly loves, and my daily blogs will be combined with Sam's daily blogs and together we will turn our experiences into an essay. I also want to recognize that we are not necessarily spending a dollar a day to get food but eating one dollars' worth of food a day. So I bought a bag a rice which was about 2.50 but I can divide the cost by servings to find out the cost of what I am eating, this will make the comparison of a dollar a day here more accurate to a dollar a day in a third world country due to differences in cost of living. I dont want to bore you any longer with lagistics and I am excited for this adventure and the opportunity to share my heart with all of you(?)!
Today has been a reminder that the Lord becons me to come and drink the living water that HE provides and feed off His word. "Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost. Why spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy? Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good, and your soul will delight in the riches of fare."-Isa 55:1-2
Today has been a reminder that the Lord becons me to come and drink the living water that HE provides and feed off His word. "Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost. Why spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy? Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good, and your soul will delight in the riches of fare."-Isa 55:1-2
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
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