| | What a life we lead. Another year has come and gone, another sun has set, and here I am, still in school. I would be lying if I said I loved it. There are times when the complete opposite is true. I sit and read and write and think and block out everything else that goes through my mind. Why? Because at the end of the day, I know it is to enhance whatever may come. We
jump through hoop after hoop, proving you belong here, all the while,
wishing you were already there, the place you see yourself in five, ten
years. Whats stopping me for making a lot of
money, paying off my school debt and just going? The back of my head
keeps telling me that Africa deservers the best of me, anything less is just insulting. They dont need another man coming in to challenge their thoughts of polygamy or human responsibility. They
dont need another preacher from on high coming to their distant land
and reshaping their notions of the Christian Life. They need a humble
brother, willing to come and serve. They need a
voice from the west to defend and affirm their faith and tell the
western world that we have so much to learn from them, so much so that
we may not understand our own faith without them. We come from on high, with our wealth and technology, with our medicine and books and all for what? Do we even know the suffering Christ? Do we know what it means to give to another entirely? Do we know what it means to love? Maybe, but not definitely. Lord, prepare my heart for what lies ahead. Make me the man you desire me to be. Show me what it means to love, to wash the feet of my neighbor, to give of myself. And when you send me, grant grace to those I will meet.
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