This Sunday we will be returning our rice bowl to church for the "gathering day" I realized last night that I will be sad to see it go. This has been an amazing object lesson in our family for showing us what we are blessed with.
We got our rice bowl in September and put it on our table. With it was a calendar listing suggested offerings for each day. Everything we put inside the bowl will go to our church's World Hunger Offering (of which every penny actually goes to feeding people - no administrative costs, if you can believe that!)
We have not followed exactly all of the suggested offerings - some days giving more, some less than what was suggested. But each night, Julian finds and reads the verse from his Bible, we talk about what it means, and then the kids put that day's money in the bowl.
It has really made us aware each day of how blessed we are, though we complain about not having stuff. We have everything we need. And it has made us more aware that there are many, many, many people that do not have what they need, and Jesus wants us to help them, even sacrificing to do that.
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