The gentle glow of the refrigerator is calling me

At the end of the first day of the SNAP Challenge, I have been thinking about how mindlessly I have been around food. I eat when I want to and what I want to. I caught myself in a pattern that I have been carrying since adolescence: wandering into the kitchen, opening the fridge, standing there and staring at the multiplicity of choices. Today, when I was preparing my breakfast, there was only one choice: cereal. It's what we have this week.

I poured my cereal in the bowl and used about one-third less of the milk that I usually (mindlessly) use. Thinking, "will I have enough milk for the remainder of the week?", stopped me in my tracks. Really . . . will I have enough?! Isn't this the nature of our dis-ease in the United States? That we do have enough to feed every American, but every American does not have enough. The gentle glow of the refrigerator is now calling me in a different way: to imagine the abundance that could be shared if I but let the light, or Light, be my guide.

May the Light guide you as well.

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Please read the Guiding Scripture below to continue your SNAP Challenge.

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Guiding Scripture, as you prepare for the SNAP Challenge:
“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And can any of you by worrying add a single hour to your span of life? And why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not clothed like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What will we eat?’ or ‘What will we drink?’ or ‘What will we wear?’ For it is the Gentiles who strive for all these things; and indeed your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But strive first for the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. “So do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring worries of its own. Today’s trouble is enough for today." (Matthew 6:25-34, NRSV).