Blessed With Abundance!

I was once again frustrated by a news report this morning telling how the cost of food had risen since last year: some selected foods as much as 35%. That is a mind-boggling fact, but what frustrated me is that in this report, not a word was said about our blessings of abundance. I didn’t really expect them to praise God, but we should not forget that we HAVE food. In our home alone, the cabinets are stocked, the refrigerator and freezer both stay filled or nearly full. I suppose the Quick family could go several weeks without purchasing more food if we had to…but praise God we never have to! Perhaps some people don’t realize there are people in our world, for that matter in our country and community, who do not know where tomorrow’s meal will come from…if they pray “give us this day our daily bread,” they mean it! And while I sometimes feel my home is crowded when all seven of us are there, I have visited places like the Haitian community in Nassau where 12 to 20 people live in a two or three room shack! I know we are in the midst of “hard times” but let’s never forget our blessings, and to verbalize them.