Hi, friends. All has been quiet on the World Race front as of late, so I decided that it’s about time for an update.
Truthfully, I’ve been so blissfully captivated by my current season of life recently that my October launch date seems like a far off dream.
I’ve never felt more abundantly blessed. I’ll (fingers crossed) graduate in May from a university that I love. I’m surrounded by friends who fill me with laughter and constantly point me toward God. I have a job at an after school program teaching Bible to sweet kiddos who I adore. And to top it all off, I’m staring a blank canvas of endless opportunities that is my future right in the face.
If you’re a Jane Austen fan, you might say that I’m completely and perfectly and incandescently happy.
But why?
Why me?
Last spring I took a philosophy class, and a concept called the “veil of ignorance” stuck with me. According to this concept, you can determine the best, most moral decisions to make about how you treat others by abandoning your own “place in society, class position, and distribution of natural abilities like intelligence and strength.”
Assuming I put on the veil of ignorance, it is perhaps more likely that I am an orphan in a developing country or a woman who has been sold into prostitution than it is that I am an overwhelmingly happy American college student.
For me, this line of thinking doesn’t only necessitate gratitude—it mandates a response to those born into a different position than me.
One of my favorite authors, Bob Goff, says that “the Bible tells us that love looks like laying down our lives for each other, and sometimes laying down our lives means standing up for someone else’s.”
Through the World Race I’ll be able to stand up.
For the lives of Cambodians, only 0.4% of whom are Christians. For the 26.5% of Swazis who will develop HIV without better intervention. For the 20% of Bolivian families who survive on less than $1.25 a day.
But I can’t stand without you. Will you consider partnering with me financially in this ministry? Simply click on the Orange “Support Me” link on the upper right side of this page to complete a donation.
If you have any questions about my upcoming journey to 11 countries to serve “the least of these,” please contact me at (931)205-3573.
Thank you,
Brooke Morton
