What are you doing to help?

This question comes to my mind often. I sometimes try to do something about it, but most of the time, I pray about it for a while, then realize that there isn't much I can do & go on in my happy ways. This question is not a question of what am I doing to help others around me, but what am I doing to help resolve world hunger & poverty. Tonight I saw the movie The Constant Gardener about a women who uncovers a secret about a drug company that is making a drug that would eventually help cure TB in Africa. However, when they distrubuted the drug, they didn't tell the people that it was still an experimental drug & the people had to take the drug to get any kind of medical help. The drug ended up killing 62 people, & the drug company covered it up, so they wouldn't have to go back & recall the drug (due to it costing millions of dollars).
When I saw this movie & the movie "Hotel Rwanda," it made me realize that these countries are in such depravety/poverty. Millions of people are killing each other & are being killed by diseases. While all of this is going on, I am sitting here in my nice comfortable, warm, house, with all of the luxuries money can buy. There is never a day that I wonder if I will be able to eat. There is never a day that I wonder if I will be sold into slavery. There is never a day that I wonder if I will have a shelter over me at night. There is never a day where I wonder if I will die of Aids. There is never a day where I have to stop going to school to take over my mothers roll because she died. There is never a day where I wonder if I will get shot.
I am tired of just sitting by & watching these things happen. I believe that we, as individuals, should take some kind of role in helping to make poverty history. Because of my moral convictions & the example that Jesus set for us, I am going to try to join the Peace Corps and help contribution toward making poverty history.
What are you going to do?

Better days are yet to come.......

"...Wherever you are, breathe out and breath again and know that life is hard, but it's worth breathing. Oh and listen to me now, for love, oh love, is waiting for you, just to say: Here come better days, here come better days. Better days and the Better Place I know." -Robbie Seay

No matter where you are in life, there will be challenges, and the grass will look greener on the other side, but just breathe in and know that there is a better place to come oneday!!!!!

How can I be a bondservant

I have been challenged over the last couple months in ways that I thought I would never be challenged in. There are parts of me that have been revealed that I could say I would not like to come out again. I have realized, these last months, that I am a very selfish person. I like to give to people, but alot of times, when giving, I give with the expectation that the person I'm giving to will give back to me in the same way I've given. I am very wrong in assuming that God gives back to those who are giving in the exact same way that they've given. When giving to others, we should expect nothing back in return, but trust God will handle all the details. I have tried to put God in a box, by saying that I will only give to others, if He will bless me by returning to me in the same way.

"Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men." Col 3:23

I am also learning to set boundaries when giving to others, so that I don't get too exhausted and sick & am rubbish at anything. I think we should give without expectations, yet make sure that we take care of ourselves physically, spiritually and mentally. What I was doing in the past was doing everything for everyone, yet never complaining & holding it all in, then exploding. I've learnt to talk things out and put boundaries up, so I know that I don't run myself ragged, but to give different options if I can't serve that person in the way they'd hope, or just to say no. I need to not feel bad if I can't do everything, but trust that God has everything under control & not worry about what other people think about me if I can't serve them.

"Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding;
in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight." Prov 3:5-6