My Life in Bags.
Few things have made me reevaluate what is important in life more than packing up my entire life into a few bags. I have done it a few times now but never this permanently. This time my mom couldn’t mail me the sock I left in the laundry to complete the pair. I can’t pick something up at Target that was the same brand from home the same way I could when I moved away to school. I couldn’t grab that sweater at Christmas when I was home that I didn’t think I really wanted but actually miss. This time I had one chance to get all that mattered in to my 3 bags. … Read more >>
Compassion and Courage
“Remember in the story of the ‘Good Samaritan,’ how three religious people pass right on by the bleeding man, without stopping to help?We love to hate those guys.We assume they pass by because they had no heart. Not true. They were probably just afraid!That was a dangerous area. The man had clearly been attacked- perhaps the attackers were still out there? Or maybe it was a con, and the man wasn’t really hurt. Perhaps he only LOOKED like he needed help, but he was really a terrorist?How can you be sure?So they passed by.The Good Samaritan stopped to help the man, not just because he had… Read more >>