Blogging with Compassion

It’s late.  There are a few things I should be doing.  But I’m not doing any of them.  Instead, I’ve been reading posts from a Compassion blogger who’s in Kenya right now.  And it made my heart ache for Africa.  And for my own Compassion child.  So I got out a pen and paper and wrote him a letter.

Two years ago, I spent 17 days in Ghana.  It changed my life.  At least, it changed it for a little while.  And then life got busy, and I became semi-obsessed with unimportant things, like how many people visit (or don’t visit) this site every day, reading blogs, and otherwise wasting time.  I have allowed myself to be consumed by the mundane, and I have forgotten about the extraordinary grace that I have received.

It’s so easy to take things for granted.

But one look at Ryan’s pictures reminded me that because I have been given much, much is expected of me.  I should write Emmanuel, my Compassion child, more often.  I should encourage others to sponsor a child, and I should revisit the journal I kept while I was in Africa.  Some lessons have to be learned more than once, you know.

When I returned from Ghana, I wrote a series of posts about the trip on my personal blog.  I’d like to share some of those with you over the next few days.  For some of you, these will be reruns, but maybe I’m not the only one who needs to be reminded of lessons that God has taught me in the past.

And someday, I hope to go to Ghana, and meet Emmanuel, and blog about it just like Ryan’s doing.  That would change my life all over again.