this is why i want to teach abroad. to see the eager, smiling children crammed into a makeshift room easily a third of the size of an american classroom with hope in their eyes and ardent in their desire to learn. i've been called to be an agent of change; to enable a new generation of african (or belizean, or nepali, or wherever) children: to pour into, to impart knowledge to, to pass on my passion to. (i am aware i just committed the unpardonable sin of ending a sentence with a preposition; please accept my most sincere apology).
i've been called to engage these children; to hook them into learning, motivate them into self-education and out of a perpetual cycle of poverty.
i've been called to love these precious lambs of Christ. to love as He loved. to live as He lived. to share that love and life with them.
i've been called out of a life of self-indulgence and humdrum monotony into a life of self-sacrifice and radical revival.
as a follower of christ and a lover of the nations, i've been called. ruined for the ordinary. destined for extraordinary.
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