tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9827454.post7491643555740631684..comments2023-10-23T12:23:54.134-05:00Comments on Larry James' Urban Daily: Our very poor neighborsLarry Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06124477733714017000noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9827454.post-43347445064788444922007-09-21T11:43:00.000-05:002007-09-21T11:43:00.000-05:00Powerful words, serioussummer. I am grateful on a...Powerful words, serioussummer. I am grateful on a daily basis for you and your leadership here.Larry Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06124477733714017000noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9827454.post-42778407694166574792007-09-20T22:17:00.000-05:002007-09-20T22:17:00.000-05:00Thirty-five years ago, when I was a 20 year old co...Thirty-five years ago, when I was a 20 year old college student, I remember going to the grocery store with one dollar ($1.00) to buy food that had to last 4 days until I got paid again. I bought two cans of tomato soup and a loaf of bread. Prices were lower then.<BR/>I had a 1/2 can of soup and toast for dinner, and toast for breakfast for those four days.<BR/><BR/>That's the last time I've really been hungry not by choice--since then I've fasted for reasons of principal or dieted to lose weight, but even then, thirty-five years ago, if I wasn't so proud I could have gotten money for food from friends or family. Still, I will never forget being hungry and not being able to do anything about it. I remember it like yesterday. I remember being hungry and knowing that I had to wait until Friday, payday, to eat.<BR/><BR/>Two thirds of the people in this survey were hungry because they couldn't afford food. More than half of those people had a spouse or child depending on them for food as well.<BR/><BR/>I cannot imagine how bad it must feel knowing your wife, or husband, or child is hungary and you can't feed them.<BR/><BR/>If you can understand what that must feel like, then you will understand what we see every day. People who are hungry. People who are ill. People who lack shelter.<BR/><BR/>People that endure without the very basic needs for life, but that we can only help a little, making their life somewhat endurable, but people that are still hungry, sick, and without homes.<BR/><BR/>A day spent upon such people--seeing their courage and resolution--will break your heart. I find my heart broken every day.SeriousSummerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15738376766326748078noreply@blogger.com