Whoever comes to me will never be hungry. Whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.
Bread is important.
One of the things we ask for each and every day, every time that we pray the Lord's Prayer, is our daily bread. There are few things that motivate us to give more than the images flickering across our television screens of people starving to death in countries and areas of the world ravaged by famine. The truth is that very few, if any, of us in this room have ever known the deep and genuine pains of hunger. The kind of hunger that knows deep down in the gut that there is no food in the pantry, no bread on the shelves. For that very reason, I believe, the hunger of others has the capacity to touch us deeply and to move us to acts of kindness and generosity, even of sacrificial giving, in aiding those around the world caught in the grasp of hunger.