During the past two years God has grown a small, piercing seed into a “must do” desire. Randomly last Fall I felt I had to go somewhere. I needed to experience something else and when my options came across the table there was one, only one that stood out to me. Stirring, my heart jumped to the paper about Zambia. Without getting into it God has unexpectedly used two people to grow this seed, people who say things and act contagiously in ways that bring that stir right back to the forefront of my mind…my girlfriend Caitlin and my supervisor Chip. This feeling, this stir wipes away my “to-do list” and makes me stop…and this week something became very clear.

There are people….people like you and me with lives, loves, tears and smiles, all around the world. People who need others to step in for their behalf because they just can’t do it all by themselves. I been receiving World Vision materials ever since I donating a small amount of money during an effort to purchase malaria nets for a community in Zambia…nets which I will be helping distribute this coming May. The latest marketing piece was a holiday gift guide, if you will, which allows you to pick out anything from chickens to water wells which you can donate to a family/community in need around the world. The child on the front made me laugh with his goofy grin and pet goat and I was instantly interested in what would fill this “catalog’s” pages. It wasn’t long into my flipping that my eyes caught those of a small African boy drinking for a tiny cup while being held by his mother. Before I knew it I was crying. There, standing over my kitchen table at 5:30 in the evening I was shedding small tears for this little guy on the other side of the world.

I never thought that a stirring in my heart would exist like this one exists…I was never going to be that guy. Slowly but surely though the stirring is getting more intense, and it makes me eager to find out why.