Random Posting

I'm writing this pretty much to myself... It's been a month since I've been back. So many ups and downs, but glorious. I'm learning. I'm realizing. I know Africa has changed my mind, my direction, how I think. What a gift that I've been given and am slowly unwrapping. Here's my insight tonight:

Father Sundborg said something that stuck with me today. It is during our college years that we decide what our world is. How far does it extend? Does it stay in a realm of similarity and comfort and do we allow experience to mold it beyond previous comprehension. Does it end in our city, our town, our, state , our country or does it extend to worlds so different from our own, to the countries soaked in poverty, in suffering. Do we allow our world to be touched and pained by what is not before our eyes? Do we extend our world and allow love to hold people of different sexuality, faiths, beliefs, ideas, and colors? Is it justifiable to do this? Why not live merely within what you already know? Why expand? Why learn about what you can not change? Why go through the frustration? Why, because that’s where living beings. That’s where God is discovered. Open your world. Please simply open your world and allow it to live a life so diverse, so colorful, so crazy that it will forever remain inexhaustible. Continually discovering and learning and stretching.