Comfortable

I feel like I have always had a heart for others. I learned how to love from my mom. She loved the people that no one else did. And she GENUINELY loved them.

I live a pretty comfortable life. I drive a jetta, live in a nice neighborhood, have a good job, and have plans every night of the week. Sometimes I get so stuck in that. Being comfortable. I dont think it is a bad thing to drive a jetta, live in a nice neighborhood, or have a good job. Don't get me wrong, the Lord has blessed me! But I never want to get so stuck in it, that I forget about poverty in the world. Not just in Africa, but 20 minutes down the road.

James 1:27 Real religion is this: Reach out to the homeless and loveless in their plight, and guard against corruption from the godless world.

I don't want to look at these pictures, and just feel saddened for these sweet kids, and poverty stricken people, but I really want to be proactive and help. Sometimes the needs are so huge, we get overwhelmed and just do nothing. Let's not fall into that trap. I want to help and love, even though I do not know necessarily that means for me yet.

I would love to someday work at an orphanage, or work with refugee's. People that are not wanted.

In our youth group we are trying to look beyond ourselves, and other people who are starving, and thirsty, and being used as slaves. It is exciting to see the students want to help.

The Lord really placed these types of people on my heart when I was in college. First of all, I had a radical roomate named Bethany George. She was CRAZY (but in a good way). She had such a heart for hurting people. She gave up so many material things, to bless others. She just didn't care about all that stuff. It inspired me. I took classes that she took. About urban ministry and refugees in the world. I had to do things in those classes that changed me forever. It changed the way I thought about homeless people, and people that are kicked out of their own countries.

We will see what the Lord does with this passion in my heart.