To Feed Or Not To Feed
Friends and readers. As we approach the time of year when we do the most stupidest of things and eat far to much, and indeed spend beyond our means, the real spirit of Christmas is left far behind and it would seem forgotton.
And yet as we get ready to do whatever we do over the festive period many people in this country and on shores afar, will simply struggle to get by. This is not an attempt to party poop this is stark reality in todays world. For them it is not a matter of opening gifts or sitting down to a family lunch more survival in a cruel world dominated by the advertisers who paint a picture of serenity which you can only have if you buy this or that.
Even here in our own fair city the shops were gearing up for the Xmas bonanza in September a tad obcene we think. While fights rage in other parts of the world and the ordinary innocent civilians suffer and become refugees in their own lands we watch the monarchs speech from her comfortable council house as she patronises her subjects surrounded by splendour and flunkies.
Every minute of the festive period someone will die of starvation in a world of plenty, not for them turkey and trimmings, crumbs of comfort if they are lucky. We will throw away over the period enough food to feed thousands yet in our fight to enjoy it all few thoughts will be given to the children who will have nothing but misery this Christmas.
This is not a plea to forgo all the delights of the festive period far from it more a tale of reality, which exists on the same planet we all inhabit. We want our children to enjoy all that Santa brings them of course we do and to share it with the ones we love that to, but in the recesses of our hearts think of those who have not the will or wherefor to enjoy even the basic life requirements, and whose suffering we could not begin to contemplate.
Yes this is the time to celebrate and relax after what has been a terrible year for many, and we ask you to stop just for a brief moment in your celebrations and silently pray if you so choose, to feed all who need fed and to clothe all who need clothed and to remember that there go I for the grace of God.