I read a blog post today called, "The Flip Side of Why Me?" Twas so good. Because it's too easy to focus on the negative things here and ask "Why Me?" about all the challenges of life. And let's not deny it - there are challenges to life. But how much better, how much more God-glorifying is it to ask, "why me?" when thinking about all the amazing wonderous things that he has done for me and blessed me with. And actually, I have often thought about this, when I look at my friends here. Why was I born where I was born, with the opportunities that I was born with? A 15 year old girl in this country is twice as likely to die in childbirth than she is to finish Grade 8. Why was I not born into that? Why do I sit here, healthy, with my laptop, under my fan, with the generator buzzing, a glass of cold clean water next to me... when literally 20 feet from my door, people don't have this option? When you look at life in those terms, it's hard to complain about the things that we complain about, isn't it?
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