If you treasure your own life, you should treasure other’s lives

“Even in the deepest suffering, there is significance there is a meaningful process of positive possibilities. We have to recover the language of humanity. We cannot understand suffering without it… there’s this struggle in life in every class of people…it’s what we do with it that matters.”

-   William B Hurlbut M.D.

I have a huge heart for missions. My grandma is a missionary. I can remember sitting and listening as she recounted her tales of her trips to Haiti, Taiwan, Kenya, and the list goes on. I am inspired of the strength and courage she has. I know in my heart that this strength has come from God. As I grow and become more self-confident I find myself taking bigger and bigger leaps in this direction. In the spring I’m going off to Japan and I’m hoping that through teaching English I can find a way to minister to one of the most difficult cultures to minister to.

You might be wondering why I’ve gone off on a rant about missions well last night my boyfriend put on this documentary. It is called “The Human Experience.” The depth of its insightfulness was just incredible. I sat there watching, heart breaking, as they experienced what it was like to be homeless and visiting a center that helped to rehabilitate children who suffered from parental abuse. The extent to which these poor, innocent, defenseless children were beaten to, it just made me sick, I almost turned it off. I was livid.

“If you treasure your own life, you should treasure other’s lives.”

-William B. Hurlbut M.D.

I want to become a part of the people who make a difference and a stand. One of my friends recently went to Kenya and he lived with a family in their hut, he experienced what life was like for them. He told me that once you see the way they live it changes you completely. You don’t take anything for granted when you return home and your entire being and goal is to go back and help them.

In this documentary they go to Africa and its mind-boggling to us how happy they are. They don’t have an I-phone 5 or a car but but but… How are they happy? Because they understand the value of life. They are happy and joyful just to be alive. They have faith and believe in God and trust in him. They aren’t distracted by the rush and technologies we have.

We live in a day and age where we rush, we rush to work, we rush to get the kids, we rush to make money to keep up with the social statuses that make us acceptable and elite. I am guilty of this too. I can guarantee you that both ways of my morning commute I get tailgated, and I’m not a snail of a driver. 1. Tailgating does not get you there faster. 2. Wake up a bit earlier, enjoy your breakfast. You will have a way better day believe me. 

I highly recommend watching “The Human Experience” It’s even on Netflix!

End of rant- Thank you so much for reading this. It means a lot to me. Spend some quiet time with your loved ones as well and treasure other’s lives as you treasure your own!