Day 1 – September 19th
What motivated you to accept the challenge? We all have an idea that there is a food insecurity present in our world, country and community; we have been hearing about it since the 1980’s with the Live Aid and TV commercials. This programmed us to go on about our daily lives believe that the issue was far away and sending money and aid will resolve the problem.
We believe that with all our modern technologies comforts, how can this be happening now in 2022, life is fast paced and has outpaced the income levels; online connections have replaced personal connections, so we now just see an issue to be solved and not the people affected by the issue.
We stopped talking so we do not know the stories behind the people living in our community facing these everyday struggles.
We need to learn about the people going through these challenges and treat them, not as an inconvenience but as a reminder of what our true purpose is … To love and to be loved.
How do you feel about having to eat from a limited supply of Food?
This is most likely more of my motivation to do the challenge … it is easy to say the words that people expect to hear, but it is another thing to experience the loss of freedom and choice.
Just going through the food bank and being guided through to choose 2 of these, or any three of these limited choices, was eye opening.
On the outside looking in, we can say that “at least they are getting food.”
What was most apparent was the disconnect between what is available in the grocery store, what advertisers tell us what we need to make us happy and what is available or priced out beyond our means.
We have been conditioned to see Hunger as empty stomachs being fed, but there is also a hunger for choice, acceptance and the social convention that we have adopted as necessary in our society today.
The Deacon Guy 