Sometimes I catch myself when I say something really dumb like, ¨I´m starving.¨ I don´t think I have ever really been to that point, or near it. I remember once a bunch of years ago when some West Georgia CCFers fasted with Kelley and me for about 4 or 5 days. Now, then I was really hungry. But starving? I don´t think so.
Today I drove a family of seven, only one was missing, to an interview with a director of a Christian school in Texas. The kids were all very skinny. Why? Exercise, proper dietary habits, or just metabolism? Nope, they simply don´t eat three meals a day, some days they just get one. Some days it´s just a snack or some cookies or chips that they eat.
I would apologize to anyone reading this, especially if you are about to eat or just have eaten. Sorry, I am not going to apologize, because we Americans consume far more food and waste far more food than is necessary. And, too many children like Carlos, Rodolpho, and Juanita don´t eat well at all. This is one reason we hope to enroll Juanita in the private school, so she can eat three meals a day.
But thinking about this today I wondered if she would at times struggle with knowing she would eat at night while her brothers and one baby sister might not. Wow, that makes my mind hurt, heart too. I wonder if there will be days when she will eat a candy bar after lunch in Texas and wonder if her brother Carlos will eat anything at all that day. My guess is, yes, she will, because she loves her brothers deeply, even though they pick on her quite a bit.
Tonight I ate two bowls of chili and prayed for Juanita and her brothers. Tomorrow maybe I will....
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