Wow has God been changing my heart and my way of thinking over the past couple of years. Starting with crumbling my religious, robotic way of thinking and replacing it with a true desire for relationship with Him and others.
It has been exciting, scary, challenging, refreshing and messy but in a good way:)
One of the big changes is my giving...It has changed from a mindset of throwing $ at someone and feeling like I was really giving to an all around paradigm shift. I'm learning that giving is about WAY MORE than $ it a change in lifestyle.
I must tell you, I am a bit nervous that my world has been rocked. And not in a guilt sort of way but in a reality sort of way.
I will be the first to tell you that I love the little "comforts" of life. I love Starbucks and Tim Horton's(Michigan's cheaper version of Starbucks:)yet the more I become aware of those living around me and around the world who just want a bite to eat or a family or a warm place to lay their head the less "comfortable" my Tim Horton's stops become. And yes, I said less comfortable not non existent...yet.
I feel like I have to say again, my friends, this is so not about guilt but about awareness and stepping outside of ourselves a bit to share the love and comfort that we have.
In our fostering of little ones from Haiti, we often get comments about what great things we are doing as people drop their heads because they aren't doing the same thing. But we all have our little corners of the world for a reason....I challenge you to do something right where you are.
Maybe it is something seemingly small or Maybe it's something BIG and CRAZY. Just do it friends and have some fun while you are doing!
Marti
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