As a child I was never without food. My sister and I were blessed to have a hard working mother who made sure we had a roof over our head, clothes to wear and food to eat.
When my husband was drafted into the Army in 1957 we went through a tough time. The Army was very slow in getting money coming to us.
We survived for weeks on corn and tomatoes from the gardens of our landlady and a neighbor.
Mid a change in my life as an adult at one point I found myself homeless and living in my car. With a car payment and another bill to pay it took all I made to pay them.
My supervisor somehow found out that I was not eating. One night when I went to work I found a note he had left for me. The note instructed me to check the bottom drawer of his desk. He had left peanut butter crackers, cheese crackers and a candy bar for me. He did that every night until I had a place to live and food.
One night a coworker took me down to the cafeteria and bought me a meal. I was thankful to have food and oh, how wonderful it felt to eat some real nourishing food.
Later in years when fostering children, several of them had gone hungry. One little girl no older than five would hide biscuits on the window sill by her bed. As young as she was she knew to hide food for the next day even though she ate well at mealtime. That broke my heart.
Two brothers that came to live with us had survived on nothing but corn for months.
My children and I were sitting in our car eating hamburgers in town. A man knocked on the window asking for money. I did not give him any money but he would not take food. Those are the people that in my opinion are not really hungry, but want the money for other things.
It is much easier for those of us who have experienced hunger to understand what it is like to be hungry.
Just like anything else we have not experienced, we don’t fully understand how it feels.
The hungry will always be in my prayers. We should not hesitate to give food to those that are hungry if we can.
In our country there should never be anyone hungry.
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