It’s been 20 long hours, a word hasn’t come out of my mouth and only a few mouthfuls of just juice and a couple of barley sugars have gone in. 
It’s not until you stop talking till you realise how much simpler it actually makes your life. 
Because i haven’t been talking i guess i have had a lot of time to think about why I’m actually doing this, what makes the famine so important to me.
I have been asked by a few people why would i make the famine so hard for myself, it’s not gunna change anything whether or not i decide to do one famine or ten, because i still get the sponsorship and the money still goes to a great cause and while that’s true something in my heart didn’t sit right if say i just went without my phone for 40 hours. I had to make the famine hard for myself, i had to actually struggle. 
This Famine if i estimate correctly is somewhere close to the tenth famine i have done (just a few right) but my heart has never been this big for it, for change. I guess lately i have just been shown and just realised how much World Vision helps with our help. How 40 hours of my life can actually help save someone else’s. 
We all have opportunities to change lives, but is it too often that we pass these opportunities up. Is it too often that we put ourselves first? Well yes. But its most of the world that seems to have this problem, well i know i do. Why do we find it so hard to give to people who have nothing, when we have so much?
I wish this was a question i could answer and simply point out to the world what we are doing wrong, why do i have a fridge full of food but there are kids dying of hunger. It all gets very deep i realise and there are a million excuses but there is nothing that can justify this. There is nothing that can justify hunger.
I guess doing this famine has changed my heart a bit, it challenges my thoughts and actions, and it has challenged what is actually important to me. 
If everyone actually cared enough could the world just not come together and abolish hunger, (cheesefest i know) but isn’t it true. 
Be the change. http://famine.org.nz/hollylavery

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