When I was hungry

When I was a young teenager I lived with my mother in rural Oklahoma. We didn't have much money and my divorced mom worked long hours but for a time we needed assistance with food. She went to the food bank and we had a few groceries. I was hungry one day after school and was looking through the pantry. I didn't have much of a selection of foods and as I held a can with a white label that simply read "Beans" I sighed, looked in the pantry again and decided to pray before I went for the can opener to eat beans again. I prayed something like, "I know this is a very silly thing to pray for and I am thankful that we even have beans to eat again, but Lord how I would love some mac-n-cheese or some meat, some 'real food'. I know its silly Lord, but I pray we can get more food soon. Thank you. Amen." I wasn't even done saying "amen" when the phone rang. Our neighbors up the road called to say they were "cleaning out the deep freeze and pantry" and had some boxes macaroni and cheese, deer meat, and some other items they had too much of and asked if we might be interested. I said "Yes!" and went over immediately. I thanked the neighbors very much. On the walk back home with my arms full of stuffed grocery bags I burst into tears and thanked God profusely. That night I thanked the Lord again over venison with a sides of green beans and macaroni and cheese.

Do Not Worry

25 “Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? 26 Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? 27 Which of you by worrying can add one [a]cubit to his [b]stature?

28 “So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; 29 and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not [c]arrayed like one of these. 30 Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?

31 “Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. 33 But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

-Matthew 6:25-34 (NKJV)