Give us today our daily bread

Read the newspaper this morning about something really disturbing. The headline of the newspaper reads "Restaurant in North Korea sells children's flesh". Some N Koreans who have fled to the US exposed to the world the terrible famine condition in their home country - people are so hungry that they eat their own children ("delicious", said the children-eating parents), restaurant owners, desperate to sell meat dishes, lure street children and then strangled them and make food out of their flesh, passing if off as pork. And it is happening NOW, not during WW2.

It is hard for people like us to imagine what life is like in a famine-stricken country. Living in Hong Kong, we are spoiled for choice. (At the time of writing this I just came back from a lunch buffet). We are so blessed that we often take things for granted.

For some reason this piece of news really strikes me. Perhaps because it is N Korea, a country only a few hours away from Hong Kong, or perhaps because it is children eating, something so gross it's beyond human imagination.

Reading this, it surely puts everything in perspective.