Terribly Poetic

Well, fall is well underway and it is so busy that I only found time to blog while I am at a youth workers convention here in Saskatoon. It is a simulcast from BC and it was to start about 20minutes ago, but there is technical difficulties and we are waiting. Luckily, the conference is at my home church and I can connect to the net wirelessly with my mac. So this is my one chance to blog. Well I would like to say that I have some deep things to say, but I am not sure that I do. (I have to type fast now, the technical problems have been solved) The past few weeks at D4 we have been discussing alot about giving, and generousity in our world. Discussing issues about how rich we are in North America and how blessed we are. Then we are turning the corner and trying to get the students to donate to aidscarenow.org campaign. It is interesting to see that kids are giving money. In the past we haven't ever gotten donations from kids and last year when we tried a service project we only had one kid attend. However, I am starting to see kids become more interested in talking about giving time, money, etc, and I pray that they will turn this talking into actions. But now I must ask myself, how generous am I? Am I just giving money and not willing to give of my time? Do I use my job as a way to get out of helping others in the rest of the world? How can I begin to not see 'our' world as 'the' world? While I feel like I have been challenging youth in this area, I feel more so that God is challenging my thinking as well.
'