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Keeping that holiday spirit in mind…
January 3, 2008
| Yes, yes, we know, the holidays are over, back to business. Consider this though: all of us sit around our holiday tables with the ones we love and speak of good tidings and being fortunate, but is the holiday season really the only time we need to do that? Shouldn’t that be a year round thing? We’d like to think so… |
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| A family at SOSCV Malawi enjoys a meal together |
| As this brand new year begins, let me remind you of a few things. We are very blessed in this country to have not just the luxury of political-personal freedom (a bear of a privilege as it is!) but the good fortune to be able to sit around a table covered with platters of delicious food with the members of our immediate family in our own comfortable home. Some of us take this for granted, potentially even spurn the mandatory nature of this forced gathering that almost always ends in bickering. But for what purpose or reason? I can give a few that will keep you in contemplative mood. |
| Not everyone is as lucky as us; consider an SOS family and its elements. They have a fulfilling but in no way extravagant meal, and the chances that someone at their table is member of their original blood family are slim to none. Their accommodations are comfortable but that word as defined in places like Malawi versus in the United States are very different. They do not have “a decent place in the suburbs” or that new C-class your neighbor is obsessed with, but they get by successfully and go on to have successful lives. This is not an accusation or indictment, just food for thought as another year wears on. |
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