A Better World
Have you ever been so focused on your own struggles that you feel like you’re drowning in them? Like you couldn’t possibly handle one more stressor or circumstance or conversation without needing to run? And when you stop to face them, they only seem to look bigger than before? I have. On multiple occasions, throughout the years. But you know what? God always turns me around. When the pile of emotions and waterfall of thoughts I feel buried under threaten to steal my focus and joy, he reins me in. And it seems that he does it different every time. This time, it was Afghanistan. It was the reality that people are in very present danger, laying their lives on the line. Clinging to airplanes flying to the States for freedom from a group of people whose only goal is to steal, kill, and destroy only to drop to their deaths. The understanding, the knowledge, and the ultimate acceptance that I could experience that t...