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What does it mean?
Some have food they cannot eat while others starve; the speaker thanks God for having both.
In plain terms
We have food and can eat it, so we are thankful.
What can you take from it?
Gratitude for having both resources and health.

Where it applies

  • reflecting on luck
  • mealtime gratitude

Putting it to work

  • practicing gratitude
  • highlighting disparity

Questions to consider

  • What do you have to be thankful for?
  • How does inequality make you feel?

Another view

It glosses over structural causes of inequality.

More from Robert Burns

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  2. O Mary, at thy window be! It is the wished, the trysted hour.

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  3. O whistle, and I'll come to you, my lad: Tho' father and mither and a' should gae mad.

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