Below are some words I found through another Racer friend, and they perfectly articulate what I think I was trying to say in my last blog, titled Kenya, Take 2.
Do give it a read. You won't regret it.
"Christ preached what he himself called the “Good News” of the Kingdom of God — a kingdom full of miracles. He himself said that in this kingdom the poor would know comfort — and even the most debauched hedonists among us know that if comfort is found by anyone, it is a miracle. In this kingdom of miraculous comfort, Christ said that the meek would inherit the earth (quite contrary to the law of survival of the fittest), the hungry would be satisfied (not a popular notion in a consumerist society), the pure would have vision (a threat to a world that thrives on sensationalism) and the peacemakers (not the most heavily armed aggressors) would be esteemed.
[But] herein is the rub. Christ said that his kingdom — the world where he himself reigns — is for children. He himself said that if we don’t need a miracle we will most likely have little interest in him. If we are able to get along joyfully in the grown-up world of supply, demand, survival, aggression, sensations and consumerism, then we’d probably have too low to stoop and too much trimming to do to slip through that needle’s eye gateway to him. If we aren’t sick, we don’t need a doctor. If we aren’t lost, we don’t need a leader.
But, if we can admit a need, if we aren’t as altogether as we sometimes secretly fear we’re not, if we can shed our thick-skinned self-reliance and peel off that thin veneer of satisfaction — then there is a place for us in his kingdom and a fairly fat chance that we can loosen our load and slip on through. If we can find that courage… or that honesty… if we can be needy, helpless, blessed as a child…
Oh Lord, this is me calling — an adult in an adult world, needing to be a child again in a kingdom for children. Oh Lord — can you make me that? It will take a miracle."
{The World As I Remember It, Rich Mullins}
Can I get an "Amen!" ?
P.S.-0h yeah, I'm now in THAILAND! More on that soon.
