I walked the red dusty roads of Kampala, Uganda and Kitale, Kenya witnessing the very lives that this woman speaks of.
Written by Ann Voskamp:
"When I sat under a tree in Africa for a Church`s Sunday School class sitting in the class with our sponsored child, Anna -- a class that had no million dollar roof, no walls, no chalkboard or crayons, papers, flash, glitz or gloss -- just one tree and one grinning Compassion teacher with a falling apart Bible -
When that teacher stood under that tree on a Sunday morning and told the kids, dressed up in not a whole lot more than tattered rags, "God lets us all give just like the widow`s offering," ..he was smiling like he swallowed the infamous original canary. He couldn`t stop laughing giddily.
"You don`t have to wait to have more, you don`t have to wait to have much, you don`t have to wait at all."
And I`m looking into the eyes of all these African children, all these hungry, dancing eyes and the Compassion teacher`s literally dancing under the tree: "You all get to give!"
It`s not just the rich who get to give -- it`s all those who give who get to be rich.
And I`m sitting under a tree in Africa with the richest in the world and it`s not Bill Gates and it`s not Warren Buffet and it`s not the family with 2 cars, a flat screen t.v. and one week in Disney. It`s a bunch of kids in Africa in ripped shirts and torn shoes, who have no knives or forks and sleep on floors.
It`s only the people who give sacrificially who get to live richly."
Thank you Ann, for your words of hope...hope for the needy, the lost, the empty and the searching in our North American nations.
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