My heart is breaking at horrible food shortages in Ethiopia right now. Experts are saying that conditions are so precarious that it's possible the Ethiopian people could be facing a famine like the one that killed over 1 million Ethiopians in the 1980s.

In this African nation, about 10 million people, more than 12 percent of the population, are now in need of emergency food aid after a drought wiped out harvests. But because grain is now twice as expensive as a year ago – if it is available at all – there is not enough food in Ethiopia to feed everyone in need.

Some aid workers are concerned that the combination of forces could force the country into the worst crisis since the infamous Ethiopian famine that killed an estimated 1 million people and was brought home to millions of television viewers across the world in the mid-1980s.

Mothers are forced to take their children to food clinic to try and get something to feed them and watch as doctors decide if their children are sick enough to qualify for help.

One by one, the children are placed on a scale hanging from a makeshift wooden stand.

The mothers look pleadingly at the Doctors Without Borders aid worker, but he keeps his eyes on his clipboard, tallying the figures that determine whether each child is sick enough to eat today.

These are the images and stories that would have me changing my TV channel in the past; sure that there was nothing I could do that would impact such a large problem. Now, when I look into the faces of these children I see MY son. If the coin had fallen the other way, he would be one of those children sitting on a scale, praying to be sick enough to eat. I worry about his first family, who we know nothing about. Are they starving? Does he have brothers and sisters that cry with empty bellies? The images I conquer up making sleeping a night a fitfully affair.

Now, it's not about those people over there starving, it's about family. Even though gas prices are high, food prices in the US are on the rise, and the cost of keeping my family is lot more today then it was last year, I know that I have more than enough money, food, and time. I'm giving help where ever I can and I pray that more and more people will join me.

(warning - this video is not for the feint of heart)