It Begins!

Over the past few years I have kept a simple blog going with a focus upon my human endeavors to help change lives particularly in Zambia, Africa.  I won't keep two blogs going this year, I will just include my thoughts and adventures with in the confines of this blog.  It is much simpler and I do not know if either will be read.  (I am obviously talking to my self.  I find I am a very good listener.) 

The actual 65th year has begun!  Yikes!  It has really begun!  That illusive number that no one aspires to BUT, if God blesses you with life here on earth,  we all make there.  Since I have chosen to make a 'bigger deal' about this age, than is my normal approach to life,  this open diary will serve as reminder that we all are called to  something greater than ourselves!  Each of our days has a number assigned to it.  Make them count!

In the next 10 weeks I will be traveling to Israel, Zambia and Honduras.  Crazy for certain.  Each country is unique in every aspect!  It is crazy because my pockets are not deep and God is the provider of these adventures.  It is crazy because there appears to be no logical, connect the dots to these trips, God set the itinerary.   It is crazy because airline seats, in coach, are designed for shorter, thinner people.  It is crazy because 13 hour flights, 50 hour-get-to-the destination, time changes, culture changes and airport food are less than ideal. 

To quote a famous Hobbit, The world is not in your books and your maps, it is out there! Your 'out there' will look different than mine, but get 'out there' and live!

I desire to help you, the reader, (optimistic I am) to step outside of what is comfortable and live!  As a collector of quotes one of my most used, so that must make it a favorite, comes from Corrie Ten Boom, a Holocaust  Survivor.  She was not Jewish but helped to hide and rescue Jewish people.  I will quote her often for she 'got it'.  Life is not about us!

An excuse serves only to help the one giving it. (this is a paraphrase but it makes the point) Corrie Ten Boom. 

I close today asking you to take an inventory of your life.  What excuses do you make to keep you from giving to others,  to taking an adventure, to remain selfish and self focused?  The happiest people I know are those who abandon self and serve others.  Are you ready?

May 21, 2015