I haven't blogged in a long time... Been pretty busy as most of you know.
Well, after the first week of being home, I finally caught up to jet lag, got used to not having security check each time you walk into a store, and most of all... Not seeing sad hungry faces on the side of the streets. Every where, there were beggars, I can not express this enough. I remember coming home and saying this over and over again. No matter where I went, there were hungry homeless people.
As I spoke before about the hospital in Kenya, I remember this one face, this one women, she was an elderly women sitting in a wheel chair, an IV in her arm and tears running down her face. Once in awhile I just sit and think of her. She was sick in a 3rd world country, probably not a lot of money, and not any REAL good meds. I live in the U.S.A. and as a kid even, I am more rich than most of the people there. Why can't I do something? Why is she probably not even alive by now, and I did nothing? I know I am only 13. I can't just hop on a plane and leave home, of course not! But can I make a difference? I can not just sit here and do nothing! I am sick of it. I said this to myself and to God, I don't even really like being home... Yes the fist time I got home I loved it. But I sit here and cry over the face of this women, or the young blind boy who was begging on the street... And I did nothing.
I want to do something, my amazing friend Amy (Thiele as I call her) shared this versus with me
1 Timothy 1:12
Don't let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for believers in speech, in life, in love, and in purity.
(Clap for Amy)
Being a kid.. Doesn't mean I can't make a difference. I know the Lord has something planned for me, and all my other friends who want to follow the Lord.. We just have to listen, and go.
All4Christ,
Coral