To sinful patterns of behaviour that never get confronted and changed.
Abilities and gifts that never get cultivated and deployed --
Until weeks become months
And months turn into years,
And one day you're looking back on a life of
Deep intimate gut-wrenchingly honest conversations you never had;
Great bold prayers you never prayed,
Exhilarating risks you never took,
Sacrificial gifts you never offered
Lives you never touched,
And you're sitting in a recliner with a shriveled soul,
And forgotten dreams,
And you realize there was a world of desperate need,
And a great God calling you to be part of something bigger than yourself --
You see the person you could have become but did not;
You never followed your calling.
You never got out of the boat.
- Gregg Levoy
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why is it so tough to reach out to the homeless?
what a horrible feeling it is when you lend a helping hand only to be shunned
I can't even begin describe the look and the feeling that is burned into you
that look where you feel less than human
its as if you can hear their eyes saying 'who do you think you are'
every time I go out, I say the same prayer… "Lord, teach me to love"
and every time I go out, I feel so fruitless, so inadequate
God gives and takes away.. And then it dawns on you
that he gives so that it CAN be taken away
he gives so that you can have a heart that gives as abundantly as his
you could have easily been born into a life of poverty, where dignity becomes a distant friend
But God was gracious enough to provide for you so that you could provide for others.
I hate the corruption this world has in stupid divisions between socioeconomic status
I hate how people are judged according to the dollar sign attached to them
the coolest new technology, the latest fastest car, the abercrombie designer clothes
whats it all for in the end?
worst of all, I hate how I'm folly to it too at times
you look around and you're fed up with the way things work in this world
and then you look a little closer and you see that you're the problem
