Monday, February 14, 2011


This past week has been…
Eye opening.
I have been in a strange mood and just contemplating life. I am surrounded by injustices and wonder how to change them.  I read people’s ignorant comments online about things that are happening in the world and wonder what they are thinking. I have come to realize that my perspective has changed…
I was wondering when it would happen, and it has.  I feared that when I returned home, I wouldn’t be able to relate to people because the things I have seen and experienced are so far out of their frame of reference, I would think that they are ridiculous.  Unfortunately, it is already starting and I am not even home yet.  I don’t know how to fix the problem, but definitely see it as one…
I cannot blame people for not understanding my life here.  If I wasn’t living here, I could never imagine little children as young as 5 or 6 living on the streets and having to fend for themselves.  I wouldn’t believe that people run from rebels and end up as beggars on the street or that death is an accepted part of life and it has lost its sting. It just doesn’t seem possible…
Unfortunately, things like that are happening and not just here.  For some people, it is just a part of their every day life. 
I feel an urgency to do something and that is something else that I cannot expect people to understand.  Without seeing things in person, without hearing a boy beg you to put him in school, or see women blatantly on the side of the road waiting, it is easy to ignore it all. 
My life has changed and so has my perspective.  I was talking to a friend the other day and she was telling me how I received a coupon in the mail from Coach.  Before, I would have been so excited but now I just think about what a waste of money and how that could put a boy in boarding school or feed him and buy him clothes. 
God has blessed me with this opportunity and I realize that with that comes much responsibility.  I need to figure out how to use this opportunity to reach people and educate them without losing my patience, to make them care about the children I love and want to help.  I don’t know how to do that yet, but I am working on it…

Take care friends and God Bless!!!

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