To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death. Pearl S. Buck
Today's quote makes me think of the saying, "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." The two go hand-in-hand I believe.
If you give someone "bread" but no hope accompanies it then the person will starve, figuratively of course. When we give "bread" let us also introduce hope. This happens through a variety of ways. Like the second quote I snuck in today we can teach a person how to "fish" so that they can be fed for a lifetime. We can show them how to tap into services that will support them and help them - medical clinics, food pantries, Job training centers, etc. This is part of handing out hope along with the "bread". Sometimes it comes through less practical ways. Have you ever considered when the last time a person starving for hope and the more practical things of life may have been hugged? Touched in kindness? Spoken to with grace? Given the benefit of the doubt? These things offer hope as well. And without those kinds of things in our lives we all will starve to death emotionally.
"Bread" isn't the real sustenance, it is hope. Offer both together and watch an abundant life rise up.
Today's quote makes me think of the saying, "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." The two go hand-in-hand I believe.
If you give someone "bread" but no hope accompanies it then the person will starve, figuratively of course. When we give "bread" let us also introduce hope. This happens through a variety of ways. Like the second quote I snuck in today we can teach a person how to "fish" so that they can be fed for a lifetime. We can show them how to tap into services that will support them and help them - medical clinics, food pantries, Job training centers, etc. This is part of handing out hope along with the "bread". Sometimes it comes through less practical ways. Have you ever considered when the last time a person starving for hope and the more practical things of life may have been hugged? Touched in kindness? Spoken to with grace? Given the benefit of the doubt? These things offer hope as well. And without those kinds of things in our lives we all will starve to death emotionally.
"Bread" isn't the real sustenance, it is hope. Offer both together and watch an abundant life rise up.
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