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Do you have a certain food that you "can't live without"? For me, it's Coca-Cola. And coffee. And chocolate. Caffeinated, brown goodness. Are you like me? If not, bet you know someone who is!
To make a long story short, for the sake of sponsoring needy children through the Christian charity Compassion International, I'm giving up all three for one year.
Here's why:
1. I'm asking people like YOU to pledge $1/week to Compassion International for each week I stick with it.
2. I’ll be able to use the cash normally spent on my fave 3 to sponsor a child.
3. I’ll be reminded daily to pray for those in poverty, and to ask God 'why have I received much?' [a dangerous question]
Join the $1/week pledge list by emailing me through the link at the left, and tell others who also might be interested to visit this blog. And on the days when I'm not curled up on the floor, crying for a cup of coffee, I'll write you something that's either informative or just funny. Thank you!!!
While I've discovered that my first
caffienated love is Coke, chocolate is a solid second. My son proved to me today that, yes, we both have a genetic
predisposition towards chocolate ("my genes made me do it!"). He made sure that we dug to the bottom of the Munchkin box (leftovers from my husband's band kids'
pre-parade-breakfast, we don't ever buy that junk ;) ) and retrieved for him "the black ones". That's right, my son chooses chocolate over powdered sugar and jelly-filled Munchkins - what kid does that??
This reminds me of the time my Aunt Lin took me, my sister and my cousin to see the Nutcracker when we were little girls. During intermission, like any normal kids, my sister and cousin picked out gummy bears for a snack. Did I want to miss with that fruit-flavored nonsense? Heck no. I, like my aunt, made the much more refined (well, actually weird for an eight-year-old) choice: Andes candies. Chocolate-mint goodness.
I'm telling you, it's not my fault, it's in my genes!!!
How this began:
Few days have passed in the last 20 years where I haven't had Coke, coffee or chocolate (the first 10 were healthier - thanks Mom). On good days it was a can of Coke at dinner; on bad days there was a steady caffeine drip rushing through my veins. Why bother with Sprite, juice, or vanilla-flavored stuff when I could have my brown-caffeinated favorites?
My die-hard allegiance was challenged, however, when I heard a radio interview with Wes Stafford of Compassion International describing mothers in Haiti who, right now, are feeding their kids something else brown: dirt. I’ve been complaining the past 12 months about our rising grocery bill…but what if I had less than $1 a day for food AND everything else???
After the interview, little thoughts began sprouting in my mind: I gave up chocolate for Lent, but would I give it up for a year? How about coffee? For the “least of these”, would I spend a year without, big gulp, Coke? (yes, that was a pun.)
Then came the logistics: should I just wander around town with a shoebox each week? To sponsor 100 kids at $32 each divided by $4 per month donations equals 80 people, right? And Google Friend Connect is so fun and easy for anyone to use, isn't it???
Getting this idea to actually work has been, so far, a bit messy. Go ahead and look at the carnage in the earlier posts; I obviously didn't have a fine-tuned plan in the beginning. But, thanks to helpful friends and my close buddy Failure, I think I finally have a decent plan to make this work.
1 comments:
Andes.... mmmmm. That sounds good right now.
But the craving must wait another year! :)
I enjoyed reading this!
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