Perspective

In February on our Landmark trip to Kenya, our team met an incredibly gifted young lady by the name of Christi Baker. I don't know Christi's whole story, but I do know she had spent some time living in a place called Kibera. Kibera is one of the largest slums on the African continent. Somewhere between 700,000 - 1,000,000 people live in one square mile. Kibera is the worst place I have ever seen in my life. (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7490163340912405232&ei=OP4iSrWqO4f8rgLSvLGyDg&q=kibera&hl=en). Christi was there with 410 Bridge putting together a choir of Kenyan orphans to visit churches in the United States. This morning I got to hear them at Southside Church in Peachtree City. They had only been in the US a couple days before coming to Southside.

When I think about their lives at home and the living conditions for most of them compared to mine, I am reminded of how fortunate I am to have been born where I was. And what is it that I did that was so remarkable to earn me a birthright in the US?

If I am not mistaken, approximately five of every one hundred births in the world are in the US and chances are if you are reading this, you are one of the five. So what about you, what did you do that was so spectacular that would earn you the privelege of being born in the US?

So if it wasn't something you did, maybe you were born here because there is something God expects you to do to make life better for those less fortunate. Remeber, to whom much is given, much is expected. For more perspective, check out the Eight Dollar Hotdog (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZKLan6ea0s)