If I could move and live in Africa, I would. Really, I would. I am sure that I have an idealistic view of how it would be, but don't we all have that about place(s) that we want to go to or live in? Since it is not time for me to go to Africa yet (I emphasize YET), we sponsor children through World Vision. Our first was Mariserina from Kenya. We corresponded with her for years before her family moved. When she left, we decided to sponsor another girl in Ethiopia, Birtukan. Now here comes the honesty...
I haven't written her yet. Nothing. Today I got a mailing from her and felt horrible. So we will sit down and write her and include something from Mara and some 'snaps' (what Mariserina called pictures). But thinking deeper about this, I realize that I continued my sponsorship out of duty, not desire to pour love into another child or even wanting to witness to another family. I just did it because that is what we should do. Sad. So that will change, but now it makes me wonder what other things do we do out of duty that shouldn't be. Thought provoking. I think that is what will be on my mind this week.
As a side note, World Vision is awesome and had a very thought provoking blog about the famine in the Horn of Africa I wanted to share:
http://blog.worldvision.org/conversations/what-would-you-give-up/
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