Today's Compassion International blog post struck me. The blog post recounts an experience some staffers had last week in Nicaragua. They were in the meager home of this family. These three children are sponsored through Compassion. The father asked the staffers a powerful question.
“For you, when you help take care of our children, is it easy for you,
or is it a sacrifice?”
or is it a sacrifice?”
That question struck me hard, as I remember feeling like it was a sacrifice to sponsor a child. I wanted to do it, but Mark had to talk me into it. How embarrassing. We eat $30 restaurant meals at least once a week. I have an appointment for a $45 haircut this week. We spend $20 per month having movies shipped directly to our mailbox.
Sacrifice? I think not. I don't think I can relate to the word sacrifice.
4 comments:
Very powerful and so so true!
You are at least doing one thing that I am not - striving to help and understand. I am often too stuck in my little world - just as your Hope Lives post above points out. Thanks for making me think today - I should be reading that book!
oh, we sponsor through compassion, too! seriously, i think we are TWINS!!!
i completely agree...very few of us truly understand the meaning of scarifice...myself included.
i sure wish you lived close to me!
Nice blog thoughts. Thanks. I am beginning to believe that God has His resons for my DH and I going thru our trials lately. Perhaps we are to taste the true word "sacrifice". It seems so easy to understand yet so foreign to us. Thanks.
Wendy
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