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Pray for Children Who Are Malnourished
Leading up to the twentieth anniversary of the National Observance of Children’s Sabbaths, focus your prayers today on malnourished children.
More than 12 million children are threatened with the risk of inadequate food and hunger in the United States
More than 3.5 million children under the age of five—one in every six—face hunger.
God of abundance, our days are often filled with breakfast on the run, fast food for lunch, and vending machine snacks. Our tables groan under the weight of food from around the globe, provided at too great an expense.
The food waste we generate is an embarrassment. And just out of view of our tables, children are hungry.
Some children’s stomachs are extended, not with excess pounds as are ours, but with gnawing hunger.
Others carry extra pounds from too much sugar and salt and fat in the processed food that is often the only thing available and affordable.
Forgive us when we are we offended by the pornography of poverty, by images of starvation that convict us. Forgive us when we miss the silent epidemic of slow malnutrition or when we turn away from the visible epidemic of childhood obesity— scourges that leave the young vulnerable to disease and stunted potential.
Forgive us when we say there is not enough when there is more than enough.
Turn us away from the waste and misuse of food and of human potential.
- Adapted from “And How Are the Children?: The View at the End of the Decade”. Insert in the 2010 Mission Yearbook for Prayer and Study.
- Posted at 6:00 a.m.
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