The Tree O'Plenty

Wednesday is laundry day in the Baker household. The back den is the folding room on laundry day in the Baker household. The back den has the back patio doors which lead to our back patio which is where the massive pile of wood sits which is the result of the big limb that landed on our house last week. So all day today while I have been folding laundry, I have been staring at this massive pile of wood and wishing someone would come take it away.

And then it hit me.

How many African widows, children, single moms or dads, grandmas, grandpas and the like spend their entire day every day searching their villages and surrounding areas for sticks and pieces of wood not nearly the size of these, hoping to scrounge up enough to sell for $1 or less in order to buy food to feed themselves and their families for that day? How long would this massive pile (of what to me is an annoyance) sustain an African family? How many days of collecting wood could they rest from if I could somehow give them this pile? Or how many families that went hungry today could have eaten if I could share with them what God put in my backyard and then even went to the trouble of knocking down on my bedroom so I could come to this revelation? I don't know the answer, but I am sure it would be a staggering comparison.

"Our desire is not that others might be relieved while you are hard pressed, but that there might be equality. At the present time your plenty will supply what they need, so that in turn their plenty will supply what you need. Then there will be equality, as it is written: 'He who gathered much did not have too much, and he who gathered little did not have too little.'" 2 Corinthians 8:13-15

So we have some wood for sale - to the highest bidder. Whatever money we receive for this wood will go directly to Forgotten Children International (visit our website if you want more info by clicking here). Because this wood is certainly our plenty and doesn't balance with what they need. And we didn't even have to gather it...Jesus dropped it right in our lap!

Buy a log...save a child! :)