...our daily bread.
I wonder sometimes if I open my mouth too much about issues for the hungry. I hope you bear with me, because that thought always follows with the one telling me that I must be a voice.
Take a breath.
Every 3.6 seconds, or the time from one breath to the next, someone in this world dies from hunger. That's 24,000 deaths a day, or over 8 and a half million deaths a year. These deaths are mostly children.
1 in 7 people of this world live in chronic hunger, which is defined as not having a single day of one's life receiving adequate nutrition. That's the same number of people that live in the world's developed nations.
In my hands are 3 ounces of rice. The average person living in chronic hunger receives only this amount of food...daily.
The fact is that we have a bountiful God, and it would be funny if it were not so sad that God has given us an earth capable of feeding every human a daily diet of 3,500 calories in grains alone. That's enough to make everyone fat. The sadness is that people still die from hunger.
The United Nations knows this. Our governments' leaders know this. We have the distribution know-how to feed everyone. What is lacking is the moral courage of the people to say this is an injustice.
As a Christian, I must remember that I pray for our daily bread, not my daily bread. I must fight the temptation to construct a life where the poor are absent, and I must not submit to a theology that makes me comfortable in a world where the poor are invisible. When I do not recognize the faces of the hungry as my brothers and sisters, and when I do not stand up to be the voice for those whose cries go unheard, how sadly ironic it is that I follow the petition to give us this day our daily bread with a request to be forgiven of my sins.
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"The community which prays, 'Give us this day our daily bread,' and has as its constitutive sacrament the breaking of the bread in Jesus' name is by definition a community in service to the hungry. By virtue of partaking in the sacrament of bread, we become united with the one body of Christ among whose members are multitudes who are hungry. The question becomes not if but how we are going to share the bread on our tables with these hungry brothers and sisters." ~ Dr. Craig L. Nessan, Academic Dean at Wartburg Theological Seminary, "Give Us This Day"
May 10, 2007
THE NEED - hunger
THE ACTION - being a voice for the hungry
NON-PROFIT - The ONE Campaign
Photo by Kris Litman
amateur photographer
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Nihit Goyal 48 months ago | reply
Sir we are using your photo for an article on our site areweMAD. You can find the article here. Thank you!
Kunal deCalaf 48 months ago | reply
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called The World Is In Our Hands, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
eric731 47 months ago | reply
Great pic and story. Consider sharing with us: www.flickr.com/groups/beatingdebt
peggy1952 44 months ago | reply
Thank you for your photo. We used it on our website. Thanks.
Paul Schlieker
brass|MAGAZINE 44 months ago | reply
Thanks for posting this picture under a Creative Commons license. I used it for this blog: www.brassmagazine.com/blog/spirit-ridiculous. Here's the attribution link I used: http://www.flickr.com/photos/krislitman/ / CC BY 2.0.
scottwyden 42 months ago | reply
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called The Giving Lens, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
We would love to have this added to our group
cocoesperanza 42 months ago | reply
Hello - Keep on working with your photographic ideas....they should reach further .......
ThisParticularGreg 41 months ago | reply
Great photo - thanks for publishing it under Creative Commons.
I have used it as the headline photo in a recent blog post about doing charitable work in China.
mandarinsegments.blogspot.com/2010/01/volunteering-in-chi...
Greg
ehenar04 41 months ago | reply
We would love to have this added to our group
ModDarling 38 months ago | reply
What a great image! Used for a Sparkle Thought and linked back! Check it out sparklethought.blogspot.com
WordLive 38 months ago | reply
Great picture and great caption too - we'd love to have this added to the WordLive group!
dariarocco 32 months ago | reply
dariarocco.com/blog/leadership-begins-our-hearts I used this photo for my blog. This photo shows a heart to give.
Thank you for sharing your photo.
Daria Rocco
Successful Entrepreneur and Motivational Speaker
my.hero.is.Jesus 19 months ago | reply
Excellent.
Thank you for sharing your photograph and your message. I used your photograph in my blog gracestories.wordpress.com/2011/12/06/christmas-countdown... Thank you again--well said.
bnjewell 15 months ago | reply
Thanks for the photo. I used it on my blog "God, Money & Me" -- godmoneyme.com/2012/03/11/growing-a-generous-heart/
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jackstack2012 10 months ago | reply
Thank you, just letting you know I used this for my first video :)
Thanks for sharing it under a CC license
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHYrbuyyMgY
gebanz 9 months ago | reply
"Whoever has a bountiful eye will be blessed, for he shares his bread with the poor" (Prov. 22:9).
Thank you. I plan to share your photo on Facebook with this verse to encourage Christians to remember to help others who need it.
Blessings,
Gail Banz
GoGivinci 6 months ago | reply
Just starting to use Flickr for our business- I am planning to use this photo as a header on our fb page. I will credit you, and if there are concerns please let me know.
www.facebook/GoGivinci.com
Dandelion Salad 5 months ago | reply
Great shot. Thanks for having a CC license on your photo. I've used it on this blog post:
dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2013/01/20/tavis-smiley-visi...