The Trader

"The Trader" is the name of a documentary on Netflix.  It is only 30 minutes long.  It is English dubbed over Russian or Georgian.  It is about a trader or junk man who lives in the country of Georgia.

For some reason, I am interested in the living conditions of other people around the world.  Probably because I continue to be confounded by how nice things are for us here in the US.  

We have clean running water, full grocery stores, paved roads and most of all, we have opportunity.  The list could go on and on.  

The people in the documentary are very very poor.  The trader is poor.  He buys things cheap and then sells them in the towns.  The currency that the people use is potatoes.

Imagine that what we are using as currency is the ability to eat!!!

Two boys look wild eyed at the items in the
back of the trader's van.  What is this the boy asks.
It is a sponge.

boy reaches for sponge.

Tell your parents to bring potatoes so they can get you 
what you want.

Imagine a world where you have never seen a sponge.  Imagine a world where you look wild eyed at a van full of junk.  Imagine a world where you beg your parents for a potato so that you can buy something.

We have so much to be thankful for.  And friends, we should do everything that we can to help God's other needy children in this world.