It has been months since I last 'blogged'. I have traveled to Israel, to Dubai and Zambia, to Honduras and have landed home for now. Whew, I am still feeling the movement of the adventures. I have not had time to deprogram or look at my pictures, my journals need their entries and attention too. I am still surfacing from all of this, a bit tired still, but when asked if I would do it all over again, a resounding "YES".
I want so much to share you the hundreds of things learned, emotions experienced and perspectives I came home with but not today.
Today's focus is heavy. I am going to focus on how I am coping in this crazy world we are finding ourselves in. If you have not noticed everything is spinning and chaotic. My head spins and I want to land somewhere that is sane and feels normal. Even as sit in my comfortable, inviting home I sense that all is not right out there.
The news of evil people randomly shooting police officers, it seems on a weekly basis. The stock markets of the world are teetering toward failure. The abortion mills harvesting baby parts for sale, making millions of dollars. The American political candidates who want to be the world leader, 'talking trash' and acting like junior high students. Refugee's looking for a place to live, their Muslim brotherhood radicals have run them out of their homes, they too are Muslim. If they are followers of Jesus they are not refugees, for the most part, they are dead. The refugee who was 'looking' for freedom and given freedom, brutally rapes a 7 year old little girl. Do we let Muslims into our country to be attacked further???? What is the answer? It just does not end.
So why am choosing to write about this today, when there are stories to tell and adventures to write about? Because in this Face Book, social media world it is too easy to be caught up watching the world that we do not involve ourselves in the world. We look at what others have that we might want and we are certain that 'thing they have or do' is the answer to our longing. We ignore the horrible things going on in the world because it is painful to think about and to think about 'what if this were me or my family?'. We shut down because we feel we are just one person and what can we do? I understand each of these emotions and thoughts.
So now what? I go to only place I know to turn, God. He is not a popular 'turn to' resort. In fact those of us who are Christ Followers are mocked and marginalized as unworthy. That is not a new trend, it is a trend throughout the ages. If there is no God then there is no hope! Man is really a mess and has no answers. I rest in my knowledge of the one true God and there in is my hope! I leave you with this passage from the Bible.
Isaiah chapter 55: 6-11
"Seek the LORD while he may be found; call on him while he is near.
Let the wicked forsake his way and the evil man his thoughts. Let him turn to the LORD,
and he will have mercy on him, and to our God, for he will freely pardon.
