Sometimes you struggle so hard to feed your family one way, you forget to feed them the other way, with spiritual nourishment. Everybody needs that.

Brown contrasts material provision (“feed your family” in the economic sense) with the less tangible but equally necessary work of nurturing a family’s inner life—faith, values, hope, and moral grounding. The line acknowledges the exhausting pressures of making a living, especially for people who feel responsible for others’ survival, and how that pressure can narrow one’s attention to immediate needs. By calling spiritual nourishment something “everybody needs,” he frames it as universal rather than sectarian: a reminder that human well-being depends on meaning and community as much as on money and food. The quote functions as a caution against letting struggle crowd out the practices that sustain dignity and resilience.