Plan B

My follow up for last week is that solidarity in experiencing even slightly, the plight of over half the world, eating a similiar diet was hugely eye opening. Rice and beans, oatmeal, minute portions of meat and vegetables, how can this be? Taking the grandkids to one of the Meal Packing functions yesterday was one of those great teaching moments, well really two hours of teaching. We donned hairnets and learned how first, second and third world countries share the world food supplies. Sharing is not the right word. It is a gross mismatch. The group of 112 of us were divided into three groups. Group one made up of three people represented the first world countries like the US, Japan, the UK. Second world countries like Mexico, Poland had seven members of us and the rest of us, 103, were all the Third World countries, like most of the countries in Africa.

The world food supply was represented by 48 little tubes of M & Ms, each containing roughly 50 M & M s. As the Third World countries, we received exactly one tube, 50 M & M s for 103 people. (Denver protested that wasn't fair, he's right.) Second World countries got one and a half tubes, 75 M & Ms and First World countries got all the rest, 2275 M & M s for THREE people. There is enough food; we all just have to figure out how to balance out this crazy equation. Feed My Starving Children is one organization trying to work it out. We measured, bagged, sealed and boxed enough meals in our two hour stint to feed 79 starving kids for a year. As a group we all got a sample of the cooked rice concoction at the end of our two hours. Denver, Maya and Isaiah, although they liked it, liked the ice cream cones we stopped for much more. We learned alot.

And as for Plan B, I just finished my first night of the Spring session at Grief Support. My table of 12 shared their heart wrenching stories of loss of their children. Each of us are facing Plan B, how we do life when Plan A, the way we thought life would be, turns into Plan B. Will we allow ourselves to see and seek God in the worst times of our life? I just watched the video of The Smith Family on this blog, http://withoutwax.tv/ , a beautiful example of Plan B. 22 minutes of inspiration. Go there. Be blessed.