{"id":5700,"date":"2014-02-06T06:41:47","date_gmt":"2014-02-06T14:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ladyslittleloves.com\/?p=5700"},"modified":"2018-12-09T00:27:17","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T00:27:17","slug":"lesson-gratitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/livingwithlady.com\/2014\/02\/lesson-gratitude.html","title":{"rendered":"On Learning to be Grateful"},"content":{"rendered":"

The other night I gave Gwyneth her dinner and she took one look at it, said it was “yucky,” and pushed her plate away.<\/p>\n

My instant thought was, Do you know how many starving kids there are who would very happily and GRATEFULLY eat this meal?!<\/em><\/p>\n

And you know what? After I thought it, I said it.<\/p>\n

She stared at me a little blankly and the questions began.<\/p>\n

“What is starving?” “What kids?” “Where do they live?” “Why are they starving?” “Why can’t they go to the grocery store?” “Why can’t their moms and dads give them food?” “Why don’t they just go and buy food?” “Where are their houses?”<\/p>\n

This is when I sat down next to her, pulled out my computer and we had a little cultural lesson on other children around the world. I hesitated to show her some pictures of those poor children who don’t have anything to eat, but ultimately did.<\/p>\n

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We talked about why the children look the way they do and how food nourishes our bodies, makes us stronger and without it we can’t survive. I answered all of her questions and found myself in tears as we spoke.<\/p>\n

There were many long pauses as Gwyn processed this information. She tried very hard in finding a solution for these poor kids which I thought was incredibly sweet.<\/p>\n

She offered to send them the food in our pantry, asked if we could go to the store and buy all the starving kids food, and asked if we could send them money to buy food.<\/p>\n

I explained to Gwyneth that I thought it was wonderful that she wanted to help these kids and that we would look into sending food to some of them, but that we couldn’t help ALL of the starving children. There are just too many.<\/p>\n

With a sad look on her face, she seemed somewhat satisfied with our talk and began eating her meal. And she ate just about every bite.<\/p>\n

It’s been about a week since this took place and Gwyn has asked to see the pictures of the kids several times since then, also asking to hear about them again as well.<\/p>\n

I was able to take a little video of her during one of our talks, capturing her sweet innocence.<\/p>\n