A Different Perspective
Dear Champions,
The short excerpt is from Aimee Dube. This is an excerpt that she wrote years ago when she went on a missions' trip to Peru. The scripture is Philippians 2:14-15 Do everything without grumbling or arguing, so that you may become blameless and pure, 'children of God without fault in a warped and crooked generation.' Then you will shine among them like stars in the sky.
Today my team got to go to the city dump to play with kids. There are entire families that work at the dump for $5 a day per family and go through trash that has been picked through already. As we drove near to the dump the smell invaded the bus, and I thought that I was going to gag it was so intense. As I stepped off the bus, everywhere I looked was covered in trash. There were tons of people. I talked with a lady named Rosio who grew up in the dump because her parents worked there. She said her kids would grow up there as well.
Some of the children wouldn't come play with us because they had to go through the new garbage with their parents. If I was them I would tell my mom that it wasn't fair that all of the other kids got to play. These kids, with talents, intelligence and personality just like us were born with quite a different set of circumstances, but they accept that this is life for them. They do everything without complaining because they need to survive.
It was quite the learning lesson for me to think about my life back in the States. How much do I have? How much did my outfit cost that I wore today, and how much is that compared to what these families make in one month? We are so blessed, but with blessing comes responsibility. Let's do everything without complaining and without arguing, because really, when you think about it, we have nothing to complain about.
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