Calling all families! This week we are challenging families to do some things to increase their awareness of the issues of hunger. One is the subsistence diet. Take a day or a meal each day, or perhaps the rest of the week through Friday to live off of some meager meal. We are doing rice and beans in the Campbell household. Another great opportunity we have to pay attention to the problem of hunger and do something with it is to come to SolidRockz  this week-- our new family program at 9:00 on Sundays! We will be 60 making bag lunches for the guests at the  Community Day Center in Waltham. WE need your help with this!!! We are looking for the for supply donations for this. We need: sliced ham, cheese, bread, chips and apples. Are you able to come and contribute? Let Kevin know at kcampbell@newtonpres.org.

When Hunger Comes Home 2013

Hi all! We're embarking once again on our church-wide challenge to gain greater understanding of hunger in the world and to think about how God may be calling us to respond to this global epidemic. Our youth will be doing the 30 Hour Famine Sat. 9/28-Sun. 9/29 (noon on Sat. through 6pm on Sun.) and we are coming alongside them as a church. We're encouraging folks to eat a subsistence diet from Mon. 9/23 - Fri. 9/27 and to join them in the 30 hour fast for the weekend.

Check back here this week for more information about hunger in the world and details about things that our youth will be doing to raise awareness and money to help those in need around the world.

The 30 Hour Famine is sponsored by World Vision and all money will be given to them to help children in need. Each dollar raised can help feed and care for a child for a day. Click here to donate to our youth doing the famine.

30 Hour Famine: student update

hello, my name is Jaylee! I am participating in the 30 hour famine. We have just come back from the service projects and all of us are tired and hungry! Being hungry and working was really hard. It really made me think how lucky I am to have enough food. We have been doing activities to better understand the situation around the world and I think that we are all learning a lot! Wish us luck and pray for us as we continue to suffer through hunger!

30 hr famine going on now!

Lets remember our students as they participate in the 30 hr famine today into tomorrow!
I just had the opportunity to have a few over for some service work and man I will tell you they worked hard and without a single complaint  (minus: "I hate fall because I'm OCD and you can never get all the leaves") HA! I Agree... Anyways... they raked about 8 bags of leaves and pine needles...washed an old playhouse and painted it new, and cleaned the garden out ....it was hard work...and they did it with a smile and a great attitude. A great example of servanthood!

hunger in america

here are a few statistics about hunger right here at home


Hunger in America 2010 is the largest study of domestic hunger, providing comprehensive and statistically-valid data on our emergency food distribution system and the people Feeding America serves. Hunger in America 2010 is extremely detailed, drawing on data from more than 61,000 interviews with clients and surveys of 37,000 feeding agencies.
The report shows that hunger is increasing at an alarming rate in the United States, and our network is expanding its reach in response:

• Feeding America is annually providing food to 37 million Americans, including 14 million children. This is an increase of 46 percent over 2006, when we were feeding 25 million Americans, including 9 million children, each year.
• That means one in eight Americans now rely on Feeding America for food and groceries.
• Feeding America's nationwide network of food banks is feeding 1 million more Americans each week than we did in 2006.
• Thirty-six percent of the households we serve have at least one person working.
• More than one-third of client households report having to choose between food and other basic necessities, such as rent, utilities and medical care.
• The number of children the Feeding America network serves has increased by 50 percent since 2006. 

Source: http://feedingamerica.org/hunger-in-america/hunger-studies/hunger-study-2010.aspx

Bugs in our rice: I have a choice

So a few minutes ago I turned on my nice stove to cook our rice for dinner tonight. I opened a new bag of rice just to find little creepy crawlies in it! Of course I have other rice stocked and am ok. And of course the thought would never occur to me to serve this bug infested rice to my family. But I did stop to think of people who would have no other choice. I thought of the movie we posted yesterday of the dad getting food for his children out of a trash can. And I realized yet again how VERY blessed we are. What seems a "no way" for me is a way of life for so many.

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Hey all,

This is a powerful, short video you should watch. You could also consider posting it on your Facebook page to help raise awareness this week about world hunger.

The reality of world hunger can be shocking and honestly, hard to believe because we are so insulated from it. But the more we expose ourselves to the reality of it and the more we share that reality with others, the greater the call to action becomes for us and those around us.

We can make a difference.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WG-i3KslA7w&feature=relmfu

Video that is very eye opening

http://www.cultureunplugged.com/documentary/watch-online/filmedia/play/1081/Chicken-a-la-Carte/?pp=share#videoDetail

This is something appropriate to show children and open it up for discussion.

Evening Thoughts

This is the second time I've seen this moving video (5 days of Hunger); I got choked up once again. Some questions I have faced thus far this week: 1. Should we eat the food that is in the fridge, or let it spoil and stick to the subsistence diet? 2. Is coffee OK? 3. How should I handle two previously scheduled lunch appointments this week? Today, I ordered rice and beans at the restaurant while my guests ate full meals! Anonymous

Video Post: Chicken Ala Carte

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Tuesday Prayer Guide

Look at the attached map of Natick as part of this devotional/prayer time.

"Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice and untie
the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break
every yoke?

Is it not to share your food with the hungry and to provide the poor wanderer with
shelter—when you see the naked, to clothe him, and not to turn away from your own
flesh and blood?

Then your light will break forth like the dawn, and your healing will quickly appear;
then your righteousness will go before you, and the glory of the LORD will be your rear
guard. Isaiah 58:6-8

7,000,501,421 current total world population
916,471,585 undernourished people in the world
30,323 people who died of hunger today
9,373,480 people who died of hunger this year

At 12AM this morning, there were 30,000 people living in Natick, MA. By 6AM, 7,500 of them
had perished from starvation – by 12PM, a total of 15,000 had perished from starvation – and
by 6PM, 75% of the whole town had perished from starvation. By 11:59PM tonight, all will be
gone. And so it goes across the world… EVERY DAY.

Turn to God in prayer….
Holy God, I long for your light to shine in my life and in the dark world.
We need your healing touch and your protecting shield of righteousness.
Continue to remind me that these gifts will break out when I take actions to feed the
hungry and provide for the poor.
Be my rear guard today and tell me what I can do to make a difference for You today.
I pray in Your holy name.
AMEN

(approximate numbers as of 11-2-2011 www.stopthehunger.com)

5 Days of Hunger: VIDEO

Struggling to find something to talk about around the dinner table? Watch this VIDEO ...discuss!

Monday prayer guide

 
 
Monday
Here’s an exercise you can do: Take out the church directory (or a school directory). Imagine crossing out every seventh family unit in the directory. Or do it in pencil as part of this devotional time.
 
"And God is able to provide you with every blessing in abundance, so that by always having enough of everything, you may share abundantly in every
good work."  2 Corinthians 9:8
 
More than 1 billion people in the world don't get enough to eat.  
That's one of every seven people on the planet.  
That’s one of every seven people in your town.  

That’s one of every seven people here at NPC.  

Look through the NPC Church Directory and imagine that those names that are crossed out do not have enough to eat… are you one?  Is your name close to one that is “crossed out”?  

Those who are hungry, somewhere in the world, do have names and addresses. Let the reality of this sink in.

Turn to God in prayer….
Holy God, open the eyes of my heart so that I can see You
                   and remember how You want me to live.
Holy Jesus, help me understand how much You love
                   those who suffer and are in need.
Holy Spirit, guide me and show me how I can
                   share from my abundance today.  
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, break my heart and reform it
                   to be like yours.  
Open my hand and make me generous to share
                   the many gifts You have given me.  

When hunger comes home 2011

 

When Hunger Comes Home November 6-13
Information Packet

Some startling Statistics: More than 1 billion people in the world don't get enough to

eat. That's one of every seven people on the planet.

In the last 50 years, 400 million people worldwide have died from hunger and poor sanitation. That's three times the number of people killed in all wars fought in the entire 20th century.

35.5 million people in the United States - including 12.6 million children - live in house- holds that experience hunger or the risk of hunger. This represents more than one in ten households in the United States (10.9 percent).

Preschool and school-aged children who experience severe hunger have higher levels of chronic illness, anxiety and depression, and behavior problems than children with no

hunger, according to a recent study.

Most of us have never experienced what it feels like to be truly hungry. This year we are challenging the whole Newton Pres family to join our youth in an effort to gain a greater understanding of hunger and to think about how God might be calling us to respond to this global epidemic.

During the week of November 6-13, the NPC family will be encouraged to fast in some way. One option would be to limit your diet to a subsistence diet for five days. You will also be encouraged to fast when our youth are fasting, November 12-13.

There will be other ways to explore the problem of hunger during the week. Devotional guides, daily email blasts, an interactive prayer chapel, a community blog and serving opportunities will be offered to help people of all ages (even children!) understand and appreciate the magnitude and implications of hunger both locally and globally.

Please read this packet for more information about how you can participate

Schedule for the week:

During the week there will be a number of events and resources that will be made avail- able to you.

 There will be an interactive prayer chapel called The Four Corners of the World in the building. It will focus on 4 specific places north, south, east and west of New- ton. Take some time to visit this space and learn more about the causes of hunger in this world. Come and pray for people who are in need.

 There will be ways where you can interact daily with issues around hunger. Each day a prayer email blast will be sent out. Additionally, we have set up a community blog. Take time to post and entry or to read the thoughts posted there by other mem- bers of the Newton Presbyterian community.

 Meal time devotional guides will be available for you to use each day for you to use in your daily time with the Lord.



Food Consumption for The Week:

This week, the challenge is to eat a subsistence diet from November 6-13. By definition a subsistence diet is a meager diet providing barely enough for sustenance. Our suggested version of such a diet is far less extreme. We simply encourage you to pick a simple, limited diet— rice and beans for example. The idea would be to eat that everyday in some fashion. The great challenge would be to try to do this three meals a day with no snacking in between. This will give you some idea how many people experience food. They have a limited supply and, in most cases, little to no variety in their diet. Pick two or three simple foods and eat just those every day. Pick something with protein (but not meat) as part of this diet.

We understand that not everyone will be able to do this. Think of an alternative. Can you do it at dinner time? Breakfast? A recipe for rice and beans can be found on the website and on the back of this publication.

The weekend of November 12-13, our youth will be participating in the 30 Hour Famine, sponsored by World Vision. You are encouraged to fast if you’d like in solidarity with our youth. The fast begins Saturday morning and will end on Sunday with a break fast. You can break the fast yourself at home if you’d like or you can join us during the 10:15-11:00 time at church for a simple soup and bread break fast meal.

Our youth will be raising money from sponsors for each hour they fast. The proceeds will be given to World Vision. You can con- sider making a donation on behalf of our youth. Perhaps you can determine how much you didn’t spend on groceries over the week while you were fasting and eating simply and make a donation for that amount. There will be an opportunity to make donation on Sunday, November 13th.

All About Fasting

The average, healthy person is able to go without food for 30 hours without any ill effects. Exceptions are the following:

- children under the age of 12 - the elderly - pregnant or nursing women

- people with other specific medical conditions (past or present) including diabetes, reactive hypoglycemia, other medical condi- tions that are associated with or could precipitate hypoglycemia; eating disorders (anorexia, bulimia).

If you have any health-related questions or are regularly under a doctor’s care for any of the above medical conditions, you are strongly advised to consult your family doctor before taking part.

What is fasting? Fasting is the act of abstaining from food. There are various types of ways to fast, but the most popular and the one that is part of the 30 Hour Famine is a juice fast.

Why is fasting part of the 30 Hour Famine? It’s an opportunity for participants to focus their thoughts, prayers and efforts on things most important to God. It’s a way to draw near to God. It also allows participants to feel what real hunger feels like -- a hunger that is felt by many of the boys, girls, men and women who are being helped by the funds raised during the 30 Hour Fam- ine.

"Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke?

Isaiah 58:6

 

What does the Bible say about fasting? There are many scriptural references to fasting, in both the Old and New Testament. The following is not a complete list but is a good place to start.

Matthew 6:16-18 Daniel 9:3, 20 Judges 20:26-28

Matthew 9:16-17 Ezra 8:21-23 Psalms 35:13

Matthew 17:20-21 Isaiah 58 Mark 9:29

What are some alternatives to fasting? A 30 hour fast is not required for those participating in the 30 Hour Famine, but it is a recognized component of the 30 Hour Famine. Again, most people can go without food for 30 hours with no ill effects, but it should be a personal choice. If, for any reason (medical or otherwise), someone cannot participate in a 30 hour fast, modifying the Famine is accepted. Some suggested ways to modify a fast include:

   

skipping a meal (or two) abstaining from something (i.e. chocolate, soda pop, etc.) for a period of time fasting from talking for a period time fasting from media (no TV, movies, videos, radio, music, etc.) for a period of time.

How should we break the fast? Breaking your fast can be a meaningful time for the group, but it also should be done gradually and sensibly.

This document was prepared by World Vision’s 30 Hour Famine staff. It is not designed to replace a physician’s guidance but is provided to answer common questions regarding fasting.

Service Opportunities

There are several opportunities to serve following this week long intensive.

Saturday’s Bread— Next Service Dates: December 3 December 31 and January 28 Serve a meal to the Homeless at the Church of St. John the Evangelist, 35 Bowdoin Street, on Beacon Hill. Meet at the church at 12:15 - return approximately at 4:15.

Boston Rescue Mission: January 8 and March 25

Help serve a meal at one of Boston’s faith-based shelters

Newton Food Pantry Drive: The month of February

Details to follow.

Project Angel Tree: November through Christmas

Help provide gifts for children who have a parent in prison. Contact Debbie Campbell (teachingdeb@gmail,com) to help out.

 

More Opportunities to Give :

This year’s Thanksgiving Offering will go to helping to fund an exciting World Vision initiative called the Oyam Disability Project . World Vision is constructing and furnishing classrooms for disabled children in The Aber Primary School in Uganda. Aber is the community where we built a well this past year.

For more information contact: Doris Kellom at 617-924-6710 or at SocialAction@newtonpres.org Rice and Beans Recipe :

1 can chicken broth 1 (5 oz.) pkg. yellow rice mix 1 med. yellow onion, minced 2 cloves garlic, minced 1 can black beans, drained Salt & pepper to taste 1. Boil chicken broth. Add rice and turn down; covering pot. 2. Cook 20 minutes. 3. Heat olive oil, saute onion, and garlic until soft (3-4 minutes). 4. Drain liquid. Add beans and heat through. 5. Mix bean mixture with rice and serve. 3-4 servings.

You can obviously substitute whatever color beans and or rice you’d like......

More than 1 billion people in the world don't get enough to eat. That's one of every seven people on the planet.

In September 2006, I travelled for the first time to Africa: to a conference in Cape Town, South Africa. After the conference ended, I asked if some local colleagues would show me around. A young couple with their 4-year old daughter offered to do so. They asked where I wanted to go, and I said people had suggested I see Table Mountain and the Waterfront. They said okay, but the first place they took me was Khayelitsha – the slums on the outskirts of Cape Town. And I’m forever thankful they did. This was the most profound experience for me, which I might have otherwise never had.


Most of the shacks did not have running water or electricity. In some cases people went on open spaces to “relieve themselves,” as I was told. There were a few locked toilets stalls to which people had to carry water from a well. Most of the people there didn’t have proper employment and there was a lot of crime. Children and dogs were playing in big amounts of trash that was accumulating along the roads. In some areas, people took electricity from larger lines and made smaller lines to their houses in what looked like “spider webs.” There were some nice looking schools, but how can children practice at home what they learn, e.g., about hygiene, if they live in such conditions? I felt privileged that locals took me there to see how a majority of people in the world live, but also burdened by what to do.

Submitted by: Carmen Aldinger

Gratitude and Awe

I once read a story about a young Chinese boy who was lost and starving, eating leaves and dirt to stay alive. He came to a house where he was given a bowl of rice and gratefully filled his empty stomach. Ever since, I find a simple bowl of rice evokes a deep sense of gratitude for the most basic of foods. This whole week has been a rhythmic repetition of that theme—gratitude and awe over God’s creation, for simple and nutritious food from the earth.

On Monday morning I woke up extra early to cook rice and beans for breakfast. We’d offered the kids to have regular breakfasts and save the beans and rice for dinners, but Hannah announced she wanted to try our new diet for every meal. Dave, Hannah and I sat down to steaming plates of rice with savory kidney beans and a dollop of plain yogurt on top. The artificially colored marshmallows in the boys’ cold cereal bowls looked poor and processed in comparison.
I love not having to think about what to make for dinner. The beans go on to soak at noon. Sometime in the afternoon, I start them simmering. As the kids are doing homework, the spices are added. Then the rice goes on the stove. A few chopped veggies and some yogurt on the side, and we have a delicious meal.

We’ve even been trying new recipes from around the world, from our favorite cookbook, Extending the Table: a World Community Cookbook published by Faith and Life Press. Monday was Red beans and rice from Mexico, Tuesday Cuban-style black beans and rice from Puerto Rico, Wednesday spiced lentils and rice from Bangladesh, Thursday white beans and vegetables from Iran, and today we’ll have curried chickpeas from India. We find the country on the globe and pray for that country.

As Robert (a new attender of NPC) reminded me on Sunday, beans and rice isn’t a subsistence diet at all to much of the world. It’s the equivalent of a thanksgiving meal! Imagine that with our simple feasts all week, we are saving about $40-$50 in grocery money to pass on to World Vision. Isn’t that just like God, to hide a treasure of abundance in a veil of simplicity?

2 Corinthians 9:8, 10-11, 14-15 describes God’s generosity at work:
8And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work….10Now he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness. 11You will be made rich in every way so that you can be generous on every occasion, and through us your generosity will result in thanksgiving to God…. 14And in their prayers for you their hearts will go out to you, because of the surpassing grace God has given you. 15Thanks be to God for his indescribable gift!

Submitted by: Kristen Mark

Thoughts from Jennifer Fitz-Roy

I’ve had chronic pain for the past five years, and spent almost three years in such severe pain that I was unable to work or go to school. In January of last year, however, my physicians finally diagnosed and treated my problem. I still have pain on a daily basis, but it’s managed with medication, medical massage therapy, physical therapy, exercise, and prayer. However, every once in awhile, my pain becomes extremely severe to the point that it is incapacitating for several days.


As I began my sustenance diet on Monday morning, I started to experience a very sharp pain in the back of my thigh going down into my calf. The pain was much more severe than usual, and I was unsure of how long it would last. All day Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, I not only dealt with the feelings of hunger and lightheadedness from my sustenance diet, but also was in such severe pain that I couldn’t work or go to class. I spent those three days lying on my couch or in bed, taking pain medication, and praying. I prayed for the pain to go away and to be relieved of my suffering, but I also prayed to be drawn closer to God in the midst of my pain, knowing that Christ’s power is made perfect in weakness and difficulty.

Participating in the sustenance diet only intensified my difficulties. As I experienced the hunger and monotony from my diet, I found myself thinking about the individuals who eat like this every day, who are hungry, and who don’t have a choice. Those thoughts helped me to endure.

My thoughts about people experiencing hunger, and my pain flare-up and sustenance diet occurring at the same time caused me to begin thinking of people in other parts of the world who, like me, experience severe pain. I'm ashamed to admit it, but this is the first time I've ever really and seriously thought about people who have severe pain who are in different circumstances than my own. So while I was praying to God to help me endure through the pain, I found myself praying much more thanksgiving for the things in my life that help me with the pain, like medications (and physicians who are willing to prescribe them and insurance to pay for them), my physicians who were able to diagnose and treat me, my massage therapist and physical therapist, and things like heat/ice packs that I'm using at home, a comfortable bed with pillows and blankets, and even the DVDs that are keeping me entertained and distracted. Yesterday, my medical massage therapist noticed that I was in more pain than usual, and he spent double his usual time with me, working on my leg and alternating heat and ice. I am so thankful for his compassion, skill, and willingness to spend so much time to help me.

When I think of people in severe pain in other areas, I know that many don't have the comfort of pain medication, the expertise of physicians, the physical comforts that I do, or the opportunity to rest. We are called to be thankful in prayer, and just like this sustenance diet is helping me to be thankful for the abundance and variety of my regular diet, my realizations about the experiences of others in pain is helping me choose to pray with thanksgiving for the first time.

My pain has been under control today and I pray that I continue to do well, but most of all, I am praying with a very thankful heart for all that I have been given in the midst of my suffering.

Submitted by: Jen Fitz-Roy

I would consider myself a pretty healthy eater, after all, I did choose nutrition as a profession. However, just about the one and only food that I lack a desire to eat would be beans. I come from a long line of bean haters all marching to the banner of the beans texture being its main character flaw. I can eat them but its never my first choice. So the thought of eating just beans and rice all week almost sent me running for the door Sunday morning. Now I wouldn't have felt so bad for myself if it was just myself I had to feed because I could have stretched the definition of beans and rice just a bit, but being married to a willing beans and rice contestant makes the sneaking my normal foods somewhat of a challenge. So I relunctantly dragged the bag of beans out of the cupboard and set to work making enough (and just enough) to get us through the week. However, being a bean hater I realized very quickly that I do not know how to cook the darn things. Being ever aware of sodium in the canned varieties, our beans came like little pellets right out of a sack. I've been boiling them all day it seems yet they don't want to become soft. Talk about a test of patience. This week has shown me how much I have to be thankful for, how much I take for granted (like NOT usually having to cook something all day to make it palatable) and most importantly that I NEVER have the right to complain about my life. I thank God for the gift of this life and although I do not know why I was born here and not there I choose to do HIS will in this place today and forever with a grateful heart.

Submitted by: Jackie Hempel

Freedom From Food--Thoughts from the Johnston Family

We have offically completed day 4 of our "rice and beans" diet. Our children our 4,2 and 14 months so we are having oatmeal and yogurt for breakfast, a normal lunch (sandwich and fruit) and only a bowl of rice and beans for dinner. We have no snacks after lunch. (The baby is of course excluded). Barrett and I are taking it a step further by having rice and beans for lunch as well. Going into the week we were not sure how much impact this would have on our children but were excited to see what happened. All I can say is that the Lord works in amazing ways. Abram (4 years) has soaked it up. He and his little sister, Faith (2.5 years), had the most amazing conversation around the dinner table last night that started with the discussion of the poor kids in the world who "don't even have popsicles or gum" and ended with them talking about Jesus and how he lives in all kids hearts and how God will take them all to heaven to be with Him. Faith ended it with "Abram, I don't know where Heaven is but when I am 5 I will learn that".
This is not a diet. To me, fasting is freedom. The freedom from food and the role it plays in our lives. The freedom to NOT think about food. It seems like there is so much more time in the evenings to spend with family or to read rather than hang around the kitchen and snack while watching our favorite show. Fasting is something that has been a part of my family for a long time. Every year, my father fasts for 3 whole days leading up to Thanksgiving. He uses it as a focused time of prayer and a way to be reminded of all that he has to be thankful for. As a child, I remember my dad eating very small portions on Thanksgiving Day. Yes, because of the fast, he would have been sick to eat a lot but it was also because he felt like it wasn't a time for us to indulge. Food is a gift. So many people don't have it. We have too much of it. He always spoke of how grateful we should be to just sit around that Thanksgiving table and eat a meal together. I learned watching him (and later doing it with him) how much freedom I found in those 3 days of fasting. It is hard when you are hungry but it also provides some freedom to just be still and pray and be thankful. For 3 days, you don't have to think about food, the kitchen, snacks, etc...This week as actually been a little harder for me because I have to be around food and be disciplined about what and why we are eating. It has had such an impact on our family.

I am looking forward to the fast on Saturday. Although it is not easy, I pray that God will change my heart and mind and break my spirit so I have greater compassion for those that do not have the luxury of returning to a normal diet like we do. All of the encouragement from the entire NPC family has been amazing. We are so blessed to be a part of it!

Submitted by the Johnston Family

I'm not the only one who misses Starbucks

So this week we are on a subsistence diet which includes oatmeal, beans and rice. That means no Starbucks. I miss my Chai. But funny I am not the only one. Zach wanted a treat with his tea at snacktime and when he looked at the empty snack draw he turned to me and said "Can we go to Starbucks for a treat?"  Of course this week it's easy, I don't even have to think about how to respond. We are not hitting any restaurants or grocery stores this week. He quickly said "Well let's go to Starbucks and just have oatmeal. They have that there." (pretty clever I thought) . But again I said "Nope sorry bud." He sighed. And then I thought why not see how much he has taken in this week. And so I asked, 'Why?" "Why are we not going to Starbucks this week." Without hesitation he said, 'Because people who have nothing to eat don't ever get to go to Starbucks."

submitted by Nici Smith