What will we be remembered for?

“If I could ask you to think a hundred years ahead, to imagine what we, and our times, will be remembered for, I would venture three things: the Internet, the war on terror and the fate of the continent of Africa.” - Bono

It’s overwhelming to think about the problem of hunger in the world, it’s easier to not think about it at all. During World War II the British army was saved from certain destruction at Dunkirk by the military and ordinary British civilians in whatever little boats they had available. Good thing they didn’t stick their heads in the sand or we’d likely be a ½ century into the “Thousand Year Reich”.

Of course we can’t end world hunger on our own but each of us could help one person. To anyone who says “I can’t afford the $35/month it costs” I would suggest try eating just rice for dinner one night a week and use the money you save, $8-10 / per meal x 4.5 weeks / month = $36 - $45. We call it sacrifice, much of the world is content to have rice to eat and clean water to drink.

“To satisfy the world's sanitation and food requirements would cost only US$13 billion, what the people of the United States and the European Union spend on perfume each year.” http://library.thinkquest.org/C002291/high/present/stats.htm

“Ten million people die every year of hunger and hunger-related diseases. Only eight percent are the victims of high-profile earthquakes, floods, droughts and wars. The rest are often forgotten.” http://www.solcomhouse.com/hunger.htm

I heard a story once about a little child who was walking along the beach and came across thousands of small, silver fish who were caught on the beach after the tide had gone out. He was picking them up one at a time and throwing them back in the water. A man came along and questioned him saying, “There’s thousands of fish here, maybe millions, you can’t possibly save them all”
“No” the little boy replied as he kept picking up the fish and dropping them back in the water. “But to the ones I do it’s the whole world”

"Is this not the fast which I choose, to loosen the bonds of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke and to let the oppressed go free and break every yoke? Is it not to divide your bread with the hungry and bring the homeless poor into the house;
When you see the naked, to cover him; and not to hide yourself from your own flesh?

Then your light will break out like the dawn, and your recovery will speedily spring forth; and your righteousness will go before you;The glory of the LORD will be your rear guard. Then you will call, and the LORD will answer; you will cry, and He will say, 'Here I am'
If you remove the yoke from your midst, the pointing of the finger and speaking wickedness, and if you give yourself to the hungry and satisfy the desire of the afflicted, then your light will rise in darkness your gloom will become like midday.
And the LORD will continually guide you, and satisfy your desire in scorched places, and give strength to your bones; and you will be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water whose waters do not fail.” - Isaiah 58:6-11