_The other evening, when I returned home from a fairly successful day and a great practice session with the Grace “house band,” my wife, Sharon, told me something that got me thinking – again. Seems she had been grocery shopping that afternoon and came home to put away the groceries she had just purchased. After putting everything in its place, she went to retrieve the mail and there, in among the stack of bills, spam mail, and more, was a letter.

The letter was from Kero, an Ethiopian child we sponsor. In the letter he told of his family and his village, of his mud and thatch hut and his siblings. Then he mentioned that they grow their own crops, but have no electricity so they used a wood fire for both cooking and light in the home. He also mentioned that they have no running water but must “fetch water from the stream” nearby. And then closed the letter thanking us for helping him and their village and asking for a return letter and picture so he could see how we look.

Needless to say, Sharon told me she had wished at that moment that she could pack up all the groceries she had just put away and ship them to Ethiopia. No we are not usually ones who talk about what we do, but we both found it an interesting coincidence that the day we get groceries, we also get a letter from Ethiopia.

Don’t know how you feel about these kind of things – maybe it’s nothing. Or maybe it’s a way for me to share our experience so that others might help those less fortunate than themselves. You decide.

Here’s a link if you’d like to sponsor a child or just help with a donation: http://www.worldvision.org/