Gluttony

POT LUCK!!!! So we had a potluck at work today. Why is it that when you are around a potluck, you tend to eat WAY more than you normally ever would at any other time? You may also find yourself eating things you never would. It was a football themed potluck so of course we had chicken wings and your over-abundance of chips and dip. There was also the one required "mystery" dish. You know the one. The one everyone looks at and says WHAT THE HECK IS THAT? Bless the heart of whomever actually brought the dish. You just hope they aren't standing the room when someone says....WHAT THE HECK IS THAT?

You also always have the coworkers that refuse to participate because they don't "do" potlucks. Since they don't know what everybody's kitchen looks like or what kind of "critters" they may have running around, they don't want to take any chances. I find this HILAROUS! These are the same people I see going out every day for lunch at restaurants around town. Have they inspected THEIR kitchens? My guess is that in most cases, someone's home kitchen is probably cleaner and "critter-free."

I think of people all over the world that have no choice but to find their meals from trash. One of the places we are visiting in Kenya in August is the landfill. This is a place where the trash is dumped and people live ON the landfill. I'm not talking about next to the landfill. Not across the street. ON the landfill. How blessed we are here in America that we can be picky about where our food comes from and what we eat. We often go out and in one meal for our family spend more money than most of the world sees in a whole MONTH. $30 for us is a MONTH of income for the majority of the world. Seriously! Stop and think about that. If you gave up going out ONE night of the month with your family of four, you could donate that same $30 and perhaps save a life. The reality is, it isn't even a "perhaps" scenario. It's a definite.

I'm feeling a bit guilty about all the food I have consumed today. Lord, thank you for the blessings and abundance of your provision in my life. Please forgive me for every time I have taken your provisions for granted.