Fast for the Invisible Children of Uganda

While visiting a fellow blogger's site, I came upon his post on the invisible children of Uganda. Take a couple minutes and read it, the plight is truly awful. There are so many bad things happening in this world! Every time I get on the internet, the news headlines are so depressing. Shootings at schools, fathers murdering their wives and children, people committing horrible crimes, every day. And they are only a small portion of the injustices and crimes that cry out to God for vengeance happening daily, that we don't hear about; like these children in Uganda.

I would like to join in on the fast Hey Irishman is proposing, how about my readers?. We're a couple days late, but small matter. We could each pick a specific day to fast, or a couple days. Let me know if you would like to do this, and I'll let Hey Irishman know (it's kind of fun keeping count;) ).

If you are pregnant, elderly, hypo-glycemic, hyper-glycemic, diabetic, the list goes on and on, perhaps instead of fasting, you could pick something to abstain from, for the special intention of these children. Can't live a day without Starbucks? Perhaps you could choose a day or two to give up all starbucks/coffee. Meat and potatoes person? Maybe you could pick a day in addition to Friday this coming week for a meatless meal day (I've got plenty of nice recipes for that;) ).

It's very tempting to just give up, because there is so much bad going on; how can the little good we do accomplish anything? It does accomplish something; every little sacrifice we make accomplishes something, even if we don't see it. Our Blessed Mother has repeatedly asked us for prayer, fasting, penance and frequent reception of the sacraments. Let's take her seriously and do something!