Remember….HOPE…
Many well known photo journalists have spent entire careers traveling the world…
Capturing the realities of the world…
War, poverty, hunger, oppression, ethnic cleansing, child labor, famine and dozens of other tragedies…
There are a growing number of these photo journalists who have grown tired of simply shining light on the brutality… the negative…
The picture of the starving orphan abandoned in the middle of nowhere…
There is a movement occurring…
A shift in storytelling….
A shift to…..
Stories of HOPE…
Those of you that received my fund letter….
Saw those three words repeated several times…
Stories of HOPE are a direct expression of my heart.
That’s worth saying again…
Stories of……… HOPE……… are a direct expression of my heart.
I say this to you publicly…
…to let you know where I’m at…
…and to add some accountability on my end…
As I walk the world this year… my heart desires to share with you…
the HOPE that is out here…
The good things that are being done…
The progress that IS being made…
The lives that have changed…
The lives that are changing…
Motivation…
My prayer is that this year will be a chance for all of us to find our motivation…
It’ll look different for each of us…
Different situations pull on us differently…
For one of you… orphans…
For another… hunger…
For another… acting locally…
God made each one of us uniquely…
He uses each one of us uniquely…
My hope is that as I walk, write and experience this year…
…that something or some things…
…will resonate with you…
…will strike your heart strings in just that way…
And in the end…
leading each one of us…
to decide…
To Do Something…
Thank you to every one of you who has helped make this journey possible…
Thank you from every child & orphan that smiles brightly into my eyes…
From them to me to you…
THANK YOU!!!!
