Our Advent there of "Hunger" receives a new twist with today's appointed Old Testament reading. In Amos 8 we read, "Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord God, when I will send a famine upon the land; not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord. They shall wander from sea to sea, and from north to east; they shall run to and fro, to seek the word of the Lord, but they shall not find it."
Interesting that the prophet does not say that the famine is NO word from God but rather a famine of "hearing" the words of the Lord. God does not cease to speak; the people do not hear.
They dash about but they cannot find the words of God. They fail to remember that the words of God are written on their hearts.
We live in a world which at times seems to. E experiencing such a famine. We search for that which is close at hand but unnoticed or appreciated. We experience a famine of hearing Gods word. This famine is sometimes noticed by us; it is painfully felt by the world-by a world in which indifference and self-satisfying behaviors allows children to go hungry and sisters to have no shelter.
May God save us from the horrible famine which ravages us of our spiritual food and strengthens us for the work of God's Kingdom.
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