If you know me at all, you know I am obsessed with reading various blogs. Most authors of the blogs I read, I have never met and probably never will. One of my favorites is Ragamuffin Soul.

On today's post, Los, the author, posted a video from his time in Uganda will Compassion International. It shows Shannon, an American woman, meeting her sponsored child, Nukonga (I think). Shannon meets her child and throws her arms around him. It is beautiful. I cried.

Liz asked what I was watching and after I told her she said , "You should do that." (I sponsor a child in Tanzania. He just turned five and his name is Minifu. He is gorgeous. Maybe I could post a pic of him soon!)

My first reaction- "I can't. It would break my heart to love them and have to leave them there."

How embarrassing and terrible that this is my first reaction. I am more concerned with how it would make ME feel. When I get honest, in that moment, I would rather keep Minifu at a safe distance, as a picture on a postcard and an occassional letter than a real child.

But this is a real child.

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I am here in Houston with Liz. I have heard so much about her church and her life group for so long, I was excited to get to experience it today.

Tonight, we were about to start the Bible study with her life group when they announced that one guy, Kenny, accepted Christ two weeks ago. HOORAY!!! Everyone was all excited about it (as they should be)! Someone asked Kenny if he had anything that he wanted to share. Kenny said something that was SO right, SO true, SO real. He said that now, he says that is now living on the "other side of the world." He realized that it was real, that it was genuine, and that it was something he needed. But that it was going to bring change. But he likes living on the "other side of the world."

The other side of the world...

So I've been on a hiatus...

...but I'm back...for now

It's the start of a new semester and it's been crazy already! Though it is absolutely exhausting, I LOVE the start of a new semester. All the excitement and anxiety is thrilling!

I decided to spend Labor Day in Houston, with Liz. It has been so good! I went to her church today, which I had been anticipating for a while. They were doing Communion. It was probably the most meaningful Communion service I have ever been a part of.

But one thing really stuck out. The pastor said at one point, "Some of us think that God got a deal when we became believers." I was like WHOA! How many times do I think that? How many times have I thought that God was awfully lucky to have me on His team.

Just a thought...