Because I Have Been Given Much...
Sometimes it's hard to see through your current overwhelming circumstances (demands of young children, finances, demands of limited time, etc.) the needs of the greater populations of humankind. As a young mother listening to General Conference it always hurt my heart, soul, and spirit to hear the Brethren encourage us to reach out-beyond ourselves when I could see so clearly my immediate families needs and us with such limited income. Oh yeah-I knew that as an American we had much more than people living in Third World Countries. I also knew that here in America we couldn't just live anywhere-there are deeds to property, contracts with landlords, required car insurances, etc. Hence with these constraints there was less 'disposable' income, less to spend frivolously. I reasoned that if I could do things less expensively, live on less than we had I could reach out and help others. We had no savings. We had no inheritances. Yet... So we ate out very little (even tortillas...