Blessed

After watching "Idol gives back" (American Idol) last night, I was reminded of how blessed I am. There are so many people in the world that struggle to buy food for their families every day.

For the last 7+ years, I have worked in my church benevolence office. We have a food pantry that is open one day a week to give bags of groceries to needy families. Every time I work there, I am reminded of how blessed I really am. It is sad to me that some of the people that come in have NO family at all to help them. I know I have family that would help us. Not just my immediate family, but aunts, uncles and even cousins that would help if my children had no food.

So in watching American Idol and thinking of having to visit a food pantry, I realized how hard this would be if you have celiac disease. Or diabetes, or menieres disease, which my sister-in-law has and my brother-in-law was just diagnosed with. It's a disorder of the inner ear that can cause terrible vertigo and hearing loss in one ear. So to help it, they have to REALLY monitor their salt intake. (Gluten-free/salt-free holiday dinners are going to be fun, huh?)

I am blessed that my husband has a good job and I can afford to buy all of these gluten-free foods to help my health. It's no wonder so many people in the world have bad health. They can't buy the proper food. It makes me sad. But it also teaches me not to take anything for granted.
Thank you God for blessing me so greatly. I hope to take my blessings and bless others as you have blessed me.