Potato Manna

Our family really liked the Children's Story Hour story about the little girl who prayed for peanut butter manna when her family was lacking in food.

We haven't been lacking in food!

However vegetables have very seasonal prices. Leaf lettuce that cost 1 grivna this summer now costs 3 griven and may be 6-10 griven in the winter. Because the prices will go steadily up until the next crop is harvested most Ukrainians buy several hundred pounds of potatoes, cabbage, maybe carrots, beets and onions to have on hand during the winter months. It saves a lot of money. The cheapest we've bought potatoes recently has been 1.70 griven/kilo.

In the back of our minds every time we bought groceries was the idea that we needed to get potatoes, maybe carrots and cabbage as well. But it didn't fit in the budget.

To our surprise and pleasure a Ukrainian family told us that God had put it on their hearts to share the potatoes that had been given to them.

This is what we got. It should be enough! Thank God for His provision! Thank God for "potato" manna.