When you are tired of doing well.

I have been home a little over a week from Zambia.  My sleep schedule has improved greatly, but this week, every day seemed like a Friday.  I will own I am still a bit off on my sense of time.   I responded to an email that had an issue needing to be addressed, stating I would get on it Monday.  I still had two work days in which to get the requested task done.  Monday...what in the world was I thinking?  (I did take care of the issue.)  

This Sixty Fifth Year blog, is for me a time to stay aware and engaged in all that is around me.  I long to be part of a change, a good change.  A change where a well is dug, and that well brings fresh water to a village of 800-1000 people. The well's clean water will improve their lives.  A change where I make others aware that they too can make a difference, even if they never travel the world.  A change where I encourage people to not settle for lesser goals because their main goal might be hard to achieve.  A change where I challenge those in our country who complain about a piece of meat,  served to them in a beautiful restaurant, that has not met their critical 'taste' standards, to be grateful for the meat! 

Why the title "When you are tired of doing well"?  Because I am!   I don't want to be.  I want to remain encouraged about the progress I saw in our little village of Lutendee.  I want to be encouraged by those here in my country who have decided to stop being so self absorbed and too give back.  I want to wake up tomorrow and have a sense of 'all is right in the world".

I leave a 3rd world country whose people are proud of their heritage, want to make life better for their children, but do not know how. I  come home to my country who has gone crazy.  People hate it, disdain it, they devalue all life but their own and they mock it.   The sad thing is that my African country was looking to our country for stability and hope. 

I am grateful for all of the adventures, misadventures, travel opportunities, interaction with people opportunities and life experiences that have come my way. The experiences and exposures have opened up my eyes to the world.   If I were to die tonight, I have been blessed above most. I am most grateful for my curiosity of life that permeates my soul and drives me to keep going.

So, what do you do when it is easier to quit, give up, worry, complain?  

 Keep going! 

 If you or if I  make a difference in just one persons life, we have blessed them in their hard journey. 

 Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

Samuel Johnson 

 I live my life based upon The Bible.  I answer to a higher being than myself or  my government. I am called upon to give and to serve those in my realm of influence.  Yes, it is tiring.  Yes, it can be discouraging and seemingly futile.  However, as I head to my bed shortly, to rest this weary body, I know that tomorrow will bring to me opportunities to make a difference in the life of another human being.  I am not here to please man but to please my God.  

"Don’t be misled: No one makes a fool of God. What a person plants, he will harvest. The person who plants selfishness, ignoring the needs of others—ignoring God!—harvests a crop of weeds. All he’ll have to show for his life is weeds! But the one who plants in response to God, letting God’s Spirit do the growth work in him, harvests a crop of real life, eternal life.

So let’s not allow ourselves to get fatigued doing good. At the right time we will harvest a good crop if we don’t give up, or quit. Right now, therefore, every time we get the chance, let us work for the benefit of all, starting with the people closest to us in the community of faith." Galatians (Bible) 6:7-10