Reflection
Jesus said to his disciples: ‘I tell you, make friends for yourselves with dishonest wealth, so that when it fails, you will be welcomed into eternal dwellings.
-Luke 16:9-10
The person who is trustworthy in very small matters
is also trustworthy in great ones…’”
“I was on the phone the other morning with a local farm about two hours southwest from my Chicago lake front neighborhood asking: “What happened to my oats?” I ordered them a couple of weeks ago and got a notice that they were shipped, yet I haven’t seen them.”
Today, almost daily I read about food insecurity around the globe and find it hard to believe with all the technology and knowledge available, that this insecurity continues into the 21st Century. I also hear simple things that I can do daily, that might be a little more effective than my parents’ admonishment to eat everything on my plate—there are poor people who have nothing to eat. I can support local farms. I can curb waste by learning to compost my leftovers.
I like to think I really can’t do anything about food injustice. It is much too big a world problem, but truly I know better. I guess my concern about food safety began growing up in a home with four brothers and two sisters cared for by a mother and father who had lived through the Depression had experienced food insecurity was a daily concern.
Back to my local farmer. I caught them working in the field. Cell phones are amazing technology. While it was hard to hear what they were telling me, we did resolve the problem, and a couple of days later, I got my oats. Thank you to my local trustworthy farmer. OMG!
God, thank you for the many trustworthy businesspeople, servants, who understand that answering the phone, even when it is truly a bother, gives me and I suspect all their customers–little people like me who depend on their loving service today–a sense of wealth.
