It took me months to get past the first chapter (not a real page turner, per se), but once I really got into the thick of it, I definitely had a love / hate relationship with it. The book is authored by the President of World Vision. He's is speaking about the massive disparity between the "haves" and the "have nots" in this world - what he's personally witnessed. Unimaginable poverty and injustice. And it's really... hard ...to... read, yet I am compelled and can't put it down at times.
I'm about two-thirds of the way through, and I know that I must finish. The last half is all about what we can do to help. I should at least finish the positive part :) The first part was painting a realistic picture of what is happening to the world's poor, and the Biblical position about what the Church's response should be.
It all comes at such a weird place in my life. As I've mentioned previously, I really have been preparing the past few months to fost /adopt, and I was so sure that was what my mission, my responsibility, my future was supposed to be. Every time I close this book I feel compelled to pray, and again question and ask God, what do You want me to do? Because I believe that it would be next to impossible to read this book without walking away asking God the same question.
I still feel like big changes, Godly changes, are coming for the Velardes. I don't know what that will look like, or how it will impact our family. It may not be what I had planned, but I know something's coming, and I want to be ready for it.
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