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I feel that I am harping on a theme, but last night I spent some time writing down some mental correlations.

For any one of us living an average life in the Western World to wish we were wealthy, is a little like:

•  K2 feeling that it is a small mountain, because Everest is higher.

•  Paris Hilton to wish she was famous, because Madonna is even more so.

• Michael Jordon to wish he was as tall as Shaquille

• Martin Luther King to wish he was as kind as Ghandi

When looked at from this perspective, the comparisons are not relevant, we see both choices as great illustrations of being, in order: huge, over-exposed, tall/talented, or noble

In the same sense, all too often we consider our wealth only in comparison to Bill Gates or someone else in the uber-rich category, and yet we do not truly understand that we sound like debutantes complaining about the colour of the limo, to those who are truly poor.

I am continually being struck by how we truly have the ability and responsibility to impact the poorest nations on earth.

What would it take to truly partner with the 50 poorest nations on the planet to create life-changing results. I know on one level it seems overwhelming and vaguely pie-in-the-sky to even dream of being part of that solution … let alone participate in it. But on the other hand, bigger things have been attempted and accomplished in the past. How are we to truly be part of that achievement.

In my first sentence of this entry I chose the words ability and responsibility purposefully. i do not think that we are dealing with impossibilities, I really think that we have all of the talent assembled to provide significant changes if we wanted to.

I know that God has had some dreams and thoughts racing around in my brain for a while now on how we can truly create change.

It may just need to start with a little unity …

Do you ever wonder who the wealthy are? I know that I often teach, as a Canadian I truly represent some of the most unbelievable amount of excess wealth to most of the world … and yet in my heart I still am not sure that I believe it. I don’t feel wealthy.

When Jesus asked the rich young man to give up his wealth, we know that he was not talking to Caesar, or frankly to anyone that the man he was talking to would have considered wealthy. Jesus was simply talking to a man who was comfortable, well-off. When we hear the call for the wealthy to take care of the poor … do we hear our own name being called?

Here is a very interesting and FUN link that helps me put my life in perspective

I am happy to say that CAUSE Canada has invited me to work for them.

I am developing a speaking tour for Women from Guatemala and Sri Lanka to share their experiences with CAUSE, the education and skills that they have learned, and the ongoing work in some of the most remote areas of our world.

So often in missions circles we are telling the stories of other people. This is going to be a phenomenal opportunity to hear the voices of the people who are on the ground, the true benificiaries of CAUSE Canada’s work