I have been reading this beautiful book called Reading Lolita in Tehran. It was written by a women who was a professor at an Iranian college before, during, and after the revolution. She tells the story of herself through the eyes of classic authors using her secret class of girls to paint a beautifully haunting picture of life in Iran.
Sometime my senior year of high school, God put the women of the Middle East on my heart. I wrote about the oppression of women in Afghanistan for my senior thesis and absolutely loved it. I put myself into that paper because I wanted to try and understand-if only in a small way-the way these women suffer.
And now...as I think about my future, I wonder if the Middle East is calling my name. Israel, Afghanistan, and Pakistan are currently on the top of my travel list. I would so love to spend my days loving on women who have spent their whole lives hurting.
Could this be what God wants me to do as well?
Well as many a missionary might say, "safety is not the absence of danger but the presence of the Lord". If you do go, I may need to try one of those travel the world mission trips, but we're not in any sort of competition...at least not yet give it a couple years. :3
ReplyDeleteI thought we were always having a competition....
ReplyDeleteAnyhow...yeah...danger could be exciting. What's scary to me is failure...not achieving what I set out to do.
God's been working on that one this year...
Failure means nothing if you give it your all and at times we are not called to victory in every way. At times failure is part of the success, not our success, but the continuation of the plan God has in mind.
ReplyDeletethis was so amazing to read this about you!!! We never know what God has in store for you =D
ReplyDeleteyou are so cool. :) I feel the same way about Sudan! God has beautiful adventures to take you on!
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