My heart hurts
for a baby bearing a cold world
without a mother to keep them warm.
Water instead of milk
little baby feeds
a simple need for every child
a privilege it becomes
as hunger strikes hard.
Bare bones
becomes the sketch
of a baby
we hope will grow.
Susan McMillan
Rhythm In Life 
I wish we could find some way of changing things in the world. There’s no need for people to starve or die from water-borne diseases. It just takes money and political will. I wish governments would spend more on babies, and less on soldiers.
I know God is sovereign in everything.
So heartbreaking and so unnecessary.
Thank you Peggy.
A powerful, poignant message, and sadly so relevant and necessary in the world. Thanks for this courageous, strong post. 💖
Like any other mother, my heart just hurts for a little one that doesn’t have a voice to cry out to the world.💞
I nursed my daughter for many years. Since then, well, 20 years later, when I see starvation and suffering, I will go to sleep and dream that I am able to nurse all of them and have enough milk to supply the world. Yeah, I know this is a crazy thing to write on someone’s blog as a comment! And yet I put it out there. I think once you feed a child with your own milk that your body made, then you know that nurturing feeling and it just never goes away. At least for me it didn’t. Seeing a starving child is one of the most upsetting images and knowledge I can imagine
Bethany, thank you. This is beautiful and you are absolutely right. I believe that being a mother extends beyond our own. As I watch my little ones with their basic needs met I can’t help but still hurt for the little ones that are not able to have a “simple need” like milk in their early stages of life which at times may be fatal. Hugs 💝
❤️🍀 ty for talking about an important topic… great reminder and well written
Thank you my dearest.💝
…mine is, for all the animals in shelter, and species losing their habitat out in the wild…
Aww this was heart warming
Thank you dearest Chukki ❤