What is it like to be hungry? To be hungry all the time, never having enough food to fill the nagging feeling in your stomach--even after you supposedly had what another says is the right amount of food. What is hunger? It is the weakness in your body parts, the growling in your stomach, the involuntary fasting that one goes through when others are not going through it. It shames one as he asks for more, needing more, hunger wrenching stomach gut not resting, but calling for relief, for more than one bite, for a full cuisine, when there is none available.
Hunger is not shameful, it is a natural biological function of the body to regularly crave food, to need the sustenance to keep the blood flowing and the organs warm and in good shape. Have you ever asked someone for food and they said "No, they will not give you any food." But with G-d as your shield constantly, you can watch them in daily self-destruction as they hold onto selfishness, G-d is breaking them with a rod of iron as they get thinner and thinner, as they ate the food instead of you, when it was your food and not theirs. But their food did not fill them, it was not spiritual food. G-d will shield the hungry as they get regular meals everyday because they share it.. The selfish will get thinner and their clothes get loose as their food will not change them for the better, they eat empty calories.
"Lord, how they have increased who trouble me! Many are they who rise up against me." [Psalm 3:1.] But oh, how we watch the wicked wallowing in their own deceit and oppression as they try to forward it onto others. Diabetes and Gout, Heart Attacks from over-eating meat. An apple a day keeps the doctor away, but if you give your apple away to the hungry, that'll keep Satan away.
A little food could go a long way if it is shared and not hoarded, and that it is when the food you eat is also spiritual food, because it has been shared, and no one goes away hungry.
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