Day 10: Every five seconds…

Sixteen hours without food certainly makes you think. But I still can’t imagine what it must feel like for people to go without food day after day after day.   We can count down the hours, the minutes, until we can eat again.  There is no such assurance for so many who face hunger all year round.An Islamic Relief letter arrived in the mail today. It mentions an unconscionable fact: every five seconds a child dies of hunger related causes.   Every five seconds?! By the time you read this post … Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji'un.The kids and I made sandwiches to distribute to three area shelters with our interfaith service group, Capital Area Interfaith Friends at the International Cultural Center. With an efficient system in place and many enthusiastic young helpers, we churned out 350 sandwiches in less than an hour.We dropped off several trays at a local family shelter in Rockville, the little kids there so happy to see us.  A tiny drop in the bucket in this enormous hunger crisis, but as we’ve said before, every drop counts.Day 10; Gratitude 10:  Food