Sunday, November 23, 2008

" I need Africa more than Africa needs me."

I need Africa more than Africa needs me.   I need Africa so that I can be reminded how blessed I am.  I need Africa so that I can be reminded that there are still people who need.  They need clean water, they need clothes, they need food, they need relationships, they need all of the same things I need.  And just like me, they need Jesus.  They need something bigger, wider, and greater than I can ever give.  But they remind me that I can help give it.  I can give money, I can give food, I can give time, I can give love.  I need Africa more than Africa needs Me.  I need Africa so that I can be reminded of the contentment that can be found in the familiar, but also in the unfamiliar.  The contentment that can be found in the unusually strange and different world outside of my own.  I need Africa because I need humility and compassion in a time that hardens even the softest hearts and turns innocence into an embarrassing understatement of human nature. I need Africa because I need to be reminded of the joy and of the depravity of the human spirit.  I need Africa more than Africa needs me.

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