One Week Later

What is different?  How is it one week after having come from a world drastically different from the U.S.?
To be honest, it's NOT REALLY DRASTICALLY DIFFERENT.  The shell certainly is different, and yet those minds in each of us, those "idol making factories" that reside in every human being don't change because we change continents.

Do you ever think about criticizing?  complaining? stretching the truth? reacting in anger?  thinking of yourself? thinking you are superior to someone who doesn't have XXXXX?

Are we going to be REAL here?

As I plan to give a trip report in my Sunday School class Sunday, I have pondered these questions  AND I've looked up Scripture to help focus me.  There are the "common" ones to those of us who have been raised in the church like Matthew 28:19-20  GO...... Teach...... teaching them to OBEY...... and Low  I'll be with you ALWAYS......regardless of the continent.....

Are we focusing on the turtle's shell when we insist that "our world" is more comfortable?  Turtles have the soft side too.  BOTH are exposed!  Which part of me am I going to let the world see?

I hope to add pictures to accompany the posts I've written.  But that's a task for tomorrow when I'm fresher.

Will you pray for the Sunday School Report?
Thanks!