Merciful lord,

           Hunger seems so massive, so intimidating, that we feel hepless. Because there is so much we cannot do, please save us from concluding that, therefore, we can do nothing. Help us, like children learning to walk, to take one small step to assist the hungry. Then show us how to take another step…and another. Free us from the captivity of seeing only what cannot be done, and enable us to see what we can do. Then give us the courage and the love to do it. And help us to do it, Lord, not as an unwanted burden, but as an opportunity to celebrate life more fully and reflect your love more completely. We ask it in the name of your Son, Jesus Christ, who came to save us from sin and death; yes, and to save us also for a life devoted to deeds of love.

                                                                         Amen

a prayer from Art Simon, founder of Bread for the World in for they shall be fed editied by Ronald J. Sider