“My Pets Live Better Than Billions Of Human Beings” I looked at my Boston Terrier, Boggs, through tears this morning, realizing that he lives better than everyone that I had just met on this journey to take Love Around The World with World Vision. That humbled me to no end. I love my pets, they don’t eat anything extravagant, go to doggie daycare, or require a whole lot of grooming, but I spend more to feed my pets every day than it costs to sponsor a child through World Vision. I was sharing this with a friend, who said, “well, my dog is little, I don’t spend more than $40/month to feed her”, and than it hit her, that is more than $35/month that it takes to sponsor a child. I love our pets, they are wonderful, but I guess what hit me was how I don’t think twice about caring for them, and yet how often do we wrestle with helping a fellow human being in need. Last year, $52 billion was spent on our pets… $52 BILLION. I was in tears because I realized that my dogs live better than the billions we met in every corner of the World. My pets never want for food, they always are warm, safe and dry, they have clean water, they get medical attention when they need it… Yet billions of kids do not. I am not asking you to give up your pets, or not care for them… I am just wondering if you wouldn’t help a child whose family lives on less than a $1/day, less than it costs me to feed my pets. Helping a child through World Vision costs only $35/month, the amount of love, care and hope that World Vision provides to a child for such a small amount of money is AMAZING! Seeing how child sponsorship transforms these children, their families and the communities that they live in is no less than miraculous. In James, 1:27 it says, “Anyone who sets himself up as “religious” by talking a good game is self-deceived. This kind of religion is hot air and only hot air. Real religion, the kind that passes muster before God the Father, is this: Reach out to the homeless and loveless in their plight, and guard against corruption from the godless world.” I love that James doesn’t mince words, describing “religion” that is all talk as “Hot Air”, and in describing “Real Religion” James describes exactly what I have witnessed World Vision doing around the world... “Reaching out to the homeless and loveless in their plight”. I hope that you’ll join us in demonstrating “Real Religion”, religion that passes the “muster of God the Father”. Help World Vision care for the “least of these”! Sponsor a child today! klove/world
Posted on: Tue, 03 Sep 2013 19:54:26 +0000
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