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Week 1
Wednesday,
February 25
Read: Deuteronomy 24:19 When you
harvest your grain and forget a sheaf back in the field, don't go back and get
it; leave it for the foreigner, the orphan, and the widow so that GOD, your God,
will bless you in all your work.
Consider:
For God, the widow and the orphan are
always paramount, always a central place in our claims of love. Almost 19% of
our children and youth live in poverty, not in some far away place, but right
here. What does that mean in your life?
Pray:
For the 19 % of children and youth who
live in poverty in some states.
Action:
Make a gift of 19 cents, one penny for each percentage point of children and
youth living in poverty
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Thursday,
February 26
Read: Deuteronomy 8:9 It's a land
where you'll never go hungry--always food on the table and a roof over your
head. It's a land where you'll get iron out of rocks and mine copper from the
hills.
Consider:
Most of us have never known what it is to be really hungry. Most of us will not
get wet when it rains, will not be chilled when it is cold, and will be fairly
secure in our ability to garner the resources we need to survive and thrive.
Yet, there are many among us who will not. What will be your response for
them?
Pray:
For Jose, whose lunch at school is the only food he gets all day.
Action:
Make a gift of 5 cents, 1 penny for each day that many of our children only have
access to one meal each day in school.
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Friday,
February 27
Read: Isaiah 10:1-3 Doom to you who
legislate evil, who make laws that make victims-- Laws that make misery for the
poor, that rob my destitute people of dignity, Exploiting defenseless widows,
taking advantage of homeless children. What will you have to say on Judgment
Day, when Doomsday arrives out of the blue? Who will you get to help you? What
good will your money do you?
Consider :
We live in a world where the weak among us suffer the most. As people of God,
we are a community who live out of a history of concern for the most
vulnerable. We worship a God who equates justice with compassion and mercy.
God is always concerned when social systems aren’t well structured to care for
the least. Are we? How might we demonstrate such concern?
Pray:
For 73 year old Anne, who must
choose often between buying medicine and buying food.
Action:
Give seven nickels, 35 cents, one for each decade of Anne’s life, so that
together, we might bear her burden.
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Saturday,
February 28
Read: Leviticus 19:10 Don't strip
your vineyard bare or go back and pick up the fallen grapes. Leave them for the
poor and the foreigner. I am GOD, your God.
Consider :
To share one’s resource with the least, this is one measure of our walk with
God. God offers God’s abundance, not so that we can claim it for ourselves, but
so that we might know the joy of sharing with one another. Who have you shared
with today?
Pray:
For Henry and Sally who never have a
chance to eat pizza, because it costs too much.
Action:
Offer a gift of twenty cents, a dime
each for Henry and Sally. It is only a dime, but for them, it might mean that
tomorrow they will eat.
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