Today, I am thankful and ashamed of my selfishness.
As I sit here holding my well-fed, happy infant son and watch my daughters play with an abundance of toys while dressed in their clean, new clothes in our large home, protected from the sun and wind, I realize how insulated my life is.
Why was I blessed to have been born in this country, where I have grown up with every opportunity and have never had to go to sleep hungry at night when so many others do?
Why have I always taken for granted the religious freedoms I enjoy simply for having been born an American?
Why have I not spent every spare second of the last 29 years of my life on my knees, thanking God for everything I have???
No more. From this day forward, I will take full advantage of the freedoms I have, thus far, mostly taken for granted.
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