Day 2 - Thankful

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Well, our morning started with cinnamon rice again.  I really wasn't terribly creative with breakfast.

Lunch was supposed to be leftovers.  But we've actually eaten everything I have cooked, so I fixed more Mexican Beans and Rice.

Dinner was a very yummy "splurge"!  I added a couple of small cans of tomato sauce, 1/2 cup of salsa and a small amount of corn to our black beans and rice.  Very yummy.  Really made me miss meat!  I know it wasn't just beans and rice, but I do have kiddos that were pretty hungry!  They've been great about participating with us!!

Now, about not being creative.  I was really struck today by the thought that we talk about "breakfast foods", "lunch foods" and "dinner foods".  I was reading today about how so many in Haiti get one meal a day.  ONE.  And it's beans and rice.  It's not breakfast, lunch or dinner.  It's food.  It's their ONE meal.

I was already thinking about how thankful I am for the variety of food that we have so readily available to us.  Thankful for a clean kitchen and dishes.  For clean water.  Even when we were at our poorest, I ate three meals a day.  Maybe not what I wanted, but it was food.  But thinking about Haiti.  Thinking about people being thankful for one meal a day regardless of what it's called or what time of day it is just really helped to put some things into perspective.  I don't feel like I've ever been a terribly greedy or selfish person.  But it's very humbling.

Tonight we prayed for the people of India.  We've actually collected money for the Rice Bag Project with Mission India a few years ago and learned a lot about the people of India at that time. http://www.missionindia.org/  We read Isaiah 58:7 and for Matthew, counted up how many cooking appliances we have.  He got to put four pennies for each one in his offering box.

We are looking forward to eating rice and beans with our church family tomorrow night!