Where in the World?
My mind seems to be quite out-of-it these days. As I was car-pooling with my parents yesterday, we ended up arguing the whole way home. My mom has mentioned a number of times that I've been very critical at everything and everyone these days...I wasn't normally that way, but lately, I've become it. I don't like being a critical person and I can't quite understand why I'm acting this way. My mom and my sis both think it's because I've been exposed to the work of missionaries (humility, sacrifice, simple lifestyle) that when I come back to my own "world," I get disgusted by materialism surrounding me and feel critical at the luxurious state in which we live here. Since joining OMF, I feel as if I'm in a totally different world. Constantly being challenged by cultural differences and engaging with very different people has left me completely out of my comfort zone. I hate struggling through things, but it seems that I don't learn unless I go through it...God knows me so well...it's rather annoying.
posted by Jess at 10:27 a.m.
2 Comments:
*wow* ... thanks for your honesty ... struck something in me when I read it.
When I was home for the last month, I really started to look critically at those who had chosen to work (for money) rather than work in missions and I had labled them as "materialistic", but to be honest I was being overly critical and not seeing their hearts. Some of them are called to be missionaries in their workplaces, and to fund missions.
Who am I to decide what God has for them.
I am still saddened though by those that are settling for second best ... settling for the rewards of now rather than the eternal rewards
i agree with tom, and i think that some of your criticism may be my fault - thinking critically is okay, right? it's just how you present yourself and your ideas to others that makes the difference. if they aren't ready to hear it, there has to be some measure of 'diplomacy' (?) in our communication of the harsh (but true) message... thanks -- oh, and i think your parents like *fighting* with you -- it's that irish influence ;)
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