I AM SOOO BLESSED

Ever wonder what it would be like to live on 2 meals of rice and beans a day? What about rice, beans and tortillas 3 times a day?

This is a challenge taken up by the people in the church I attend. Riverwood Church Community has taken on the challenge of eating like half the world's population. You see Riverwood sponsors two care points in Swaziland. Attenders of Riverwood raise money for resources like:

• a well for clean drinking water
• a fence around the care point to establish property lines
  
• a garden will soon be built to feed 50+ children who gather at the care point
• two young women who are dedicated to teach, laugh and play with the children and act as role models
  

A care point is a meeting place where children gather from miles away. It is at this care point that they receive care, food and a very basic education. Often these kids are orphans of parents who have died because of Aids. Left to fend for themselves they struggle to survive an existence that I can not even begin to comprehend.

As a family we have sponsored a little 6 year old girl named Thobelile - I hope that one day we will get to meet her face to face.

Our hope and prayer for Thobelile is that she will have the opportunity to grow to be a healthy young woman who's story will be one of courage, faith and hope in a world that seems to be crumbling around her.

I think it's important to take a step back from our every day lives and realize how blessed we are. In North America we get so caught up in must haves and need to haves that we forget that we've already got more than half the world.

I am sooo blessed.