America is a very comfortable place. I have three Starbucks' within fifteen minutes of my house, a dependable car in which to get to said Starbucks, and a debit card with which to buy a venti White Chocolate Mocha, extra hot, sometimes with an extra shot of expresso. I have three alarm clocks that wake me up every morning (God bless them) and if I sleep through them, my mother kindly wakes me up. My family is happy and whole and it is believed that the lowest of the low can make it big - it's almost expected. Flattery and affirmation are key in our culture, where would we be without them? Music, movies, shows, food...everything America is is everything I want to take a break from. What would life be like eating food to live instead of living to eat food? What if the smaller things in life brought as much joy as a plasma screen TV or an iPhone? I'm going to Mombasa, Kenya this coming year in order to serve and in order to learn. I want to learn to be content in Christ rather than in useless stuff and I hope that in that process, I will learn to love and to live in a new, fresh, and fervent way.
Fresh
New perspective
Unexpected adventure
Somewhere I've never been
Far
From false affirmation
Useless information
Things that wear the heart thin
Fervent
Breathless anticipation
Restless conversation
Close my eyes and jump in
Love,
Christie
xoxo
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