Last night, several of us from the church went to help out again at the Hunger Garden. It's a garden run completely on donations and volunteer labor, with all the produce (over 26,000 lb as of last week) going to our county's food bank. Last night, as everyone else was getting ready to leave, 2 enthusiastic young men were sprinting through the field trying to pick as much produce as they could before the sun went down. At one point, one of them yelled out, "We're going to win the war between people and hunger!!!"
This child, perhaps 11 or 12 years old, gets it. He understands that hunger can be conquered. We say we're fighting hunger, but usually we're realistic about it -- it will always exist, we say. But I think this boy really believes we can win the war. He really believes hunger can be stamped out, eliminated, conquered, killed, completely obliterated, however you want to say it. That, my friends, is the faith of a child. No wonder Jesus keeps looking at children as a model for faith. Children still believe in the things that we should never have given up on, like winning the war between people and hunger. I wish I could be more like that boy.
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