$2 Fast

"More than 660 million people without sanitation live on less than $2 dollars a day, with one in three living on less than $1 a day." - globalissues.org

Hudson and I are joining our church on a $2 fast. We are only allowed two dollars a day to feed ourselves for the next week. This is going to be a huge adjustment to our lives. We'll have to be smarter with our money - it involves planning. One strategy was suggested: that the church gathers one night for a community meal, with each person contributing their two dollars. The goal of this fast is to slow down enough to see and understand the issue of poverty and how the rest of the world lives. It's going to be a bit difficult with our current diet of no sugar and only whole grains (because processed things we can't have usually run cheaper), but we're up to the challenge. I'll let you know how it goes!

Isaiah 58:6-7
"...the fast I choose:
To break the chains of wickedness,
to untie the ropes of the yoke,
to set the oppressed free,
and to tear off every yoke...

Is it not to share your bread with the hungry,
to bring the poor and homeless into your house,
to clothe the naked when you see him,
and to not ignore your own flesh and blood?"