About 3 months after Owen lost his job last July, he went to Wal-Mart one day to "stock up" on food so that we would have something to eat after we ran out of money. My first mistake was to let him go to Wal-Mart alone to shop for groceries. The second one was not giving him a list.
He came home with 5 rolls, 5 lbs each, of ground chuck....(the kind that I don't buy b/c I'm not sure what's in it); 9 lbs of frozen whiting fillets; 2 lbs of frozen tilapia fillets; 5 packages of tortillas (don't ask, I don't know why); 5 lbs of packaged lunch meat; some chicken breast fillets; a 20 lb bag of rice; and 5 lbs of beans. The list probably goes on, but I can't remember the rest. (For those of you who don't know him, Owen is an extreme person, so this really didn't shock me too much. ) His plan was to keep it in the deep freezer and pantry until we needed it.
We haven't used most of that food, so even though he still doesn't have a full-time job, it's there, stocked up in case we need it.
Last night at church, one of our members who has a mission ministry in Haiti spoke about an orphanage there. He showed pictures of them eating beans and rice and passing out beans and rice to the people in the nearby villages. He also told a story of a little girl playing with mud and making mud pies. She mixed it with cooking oil and then "baked" her mud pies in the hot Haitian sun. When it was time for dinner, her mother sadly told the little girl that she had nothing to feed her and they would have to eat the mud pies. The missionary told us that this is common in Haiti.
Today I decided to cook beans and rice for dinner because we like them and not because that's all we have. We are blessed far beyond comprehension.
2 comments:
Haha...I thought you were going to say that you're going to send all of that food to Haiti. I'm glad Owen bought all of that stuff. It's good to be reminded how great we have it.
mmmmm beans...
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