Comments on: The Poverty of ME http://blog.compassion.com/the-poverty-of-me/ Releasing children from poverty in Jesus' name. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:31:10 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Susan http://blog.compassion.com/the-poverty-of-me/comment-page-1/#comment-12457 Susan Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:19:30 +0000 http://blog.compassion.com/?p=609#comment-12457 Chris,I believe all you have said.May God open our hearts,eyes and ears. Chris,I believe all you have said.May God open our hearts,eyes and ears.

]]> By: compassion dave http://blog.compassion.com/the-poverty-of-me/comment-page-1/#comment-2899 compassion dave Sat, 30 Aug 2008 21:04:33 +0000 http://blog.compassion.com/?p=609#comment-2899 The word 'transparency' has been popping up a lot lately. Hmmmmmmmmm...... The word ‘transparency’ has been popping up a lot lately.

Hmmmmmmmmm……

]]> By: Juli Jarvis http://blog.compassion.com/the-poverty-of-me/comment-page-1/#comment-2887 Juli Jarvis Sat, 30 Aug 2008 16:25:10 +0000 http://blog.compassion.com/?p=609#comment-2887 Thanks so much for your transparency. This is why we need the poor as much as they need us -- to get rid of our greed, selfishness and disconnect. We learn more and more from them upon every encounter. Thanks so much for your transparency. This is why we need the poor as much as they need us — to get rid of our greed, selfishness and disconnect. We learn more and more from them upon every encounter.

]]> By: Compassion dave http://blog.compassion.com/the-poverty-of-me/comment-page-1/#comment-2823 Compassion dave Fri, 29 Aug 2008 02:00:45 +0000 http://blog.compassion.com/?p=609#comment-2823 Phew, for a while I thought it was just me. Welcome to club Chris (*I'm not just the president, I'm a member too). Phew, for a while I thought it was just me. Welcome to club Chris (*I’m not just the president, I’m a member too).

]]> By: Vicki Small http://blog.compassion.com/the-poverty-of-me/comment-page-1/#comment-2821 Vicki Small Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:21:39 +0000 http://blog.compassion.com/?p=609#comment-2821 Chris, Gin's comment reminded me that, at the end of my first sponsor tour, we were all asked how we had changed, as a result of our time. I couldn't come up with a thing. Honestly. Over the next several weeks, even a few months, I began to realize some changes that were directly tied to the tour. Give God and yourself time to find those changes in you; I'm betting some will surface. Chris, Gin’s comment reminded me that, at the end of my first sponsor tour, we were all asked how we had changed, as a result of our time. I couldn’t come up with a thing. Honestly.

Over the next several weeks, even a few months, I began to realize some changes that were directly tied to the tour. Give God and yourself time to find those changes in you; I’m betting some will surface.

]]> By: Gin http://blog.compassion.com/the-poverty-of-me/comment-page-1/#comment-2819 Gin Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:38:35 +0000 http://blog.compassion.com/?p=609#comment-2819 Chris -- we don't always know how God works in us -- perhaps you are to touch someone post visit, or perhaps you will realize how God did indeed work through you during the trip... Hang in there, God has been with you and He will continue to be with you! Thank you for opening your heart to us and allowing us into your thoughts. Chris — we don’t always know how God works in us — perhaps you are to touch someone post visit, or perhaps you will realize how God did indeed work through you during the trip… Hang in there, God has been with you and He will continue to be with you! Thank you for opening your heart to us and allowing us into your thoughts.

]]> By: Amber Van Schooneveld http://blog.compassion.com/the-poverty-of-me/comment-page-1/#comment-2818 Amber Van Schooneveld Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:08:27 +0000 http://blog.compassion.com/?p=609#comment-2818 Chris, one thing I always appreciate is your honesty. Thank you for being honest with us and the challenge it is to check our own hearts! Chris, one thing I always appreciate is your honesty. Thank you for being honest with us and the challenge it is to check our own hearts!

]]> By: Lisa Miles http://blog.compassion.com/the-poverty-of-me/comment-page-1/#comment-2817 Lisa Miles Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:49:22 +0000 http://blog.compassion.com/?p=609#comment-2817 I'm not sure what else to say other than, welcome to the land of the imperfect. I certainly live there. I'm a housewife whose house isn't perfect, a mother whose child isn't perfect. The only thing I can put my finger on in my life that IS perfect is my driving record -- and I'm sure that's only a matter of time. :) I just strive everyday to find some way to improve and be more what God wants me to be -- and try to take comfort in the small blessings that fall down around me. Chris, you're great! We were blessed by your photos and your posts -- that's something to be proud of. :) I'm sure with each subsequent sponsor tour, you'll get closer to what God and Compassion wants from you. I’m not sure what else to say other than, welcome to the land of the imperfect. I certainly live there. I’m a housewife whose house isn’t perfect, a mother whose child isn’t perfect. The only thing I can put my finger on in my life that IS perfect is my driving record — and I’m sure that’s only a matter of time. :)

I just strive everyday to find some way to improve and be more what God wants me to be — and try to take comfort in the small blessings that fall down around me.

Chris, you’re great! We were blessed by your photos and your posts — that’s something to be proud of. :) I’m sure with each subsequent sponsor tour, you’ll get closer to what God and Compassion wants from you.

]]> By: Vicki Small http://blog.compassion.com/the-poverty-of-me/comment-page-1/#comment-2815 Vicki Small Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:48:13 +0000 http://blog.compassion.com/?p=609#comment-2815 Chris, you sound a bit the way I felt, when I returned from my last sponsor tour. That's good. No, it doesn't *feel* good, but these trips, these ventures into poverty we can see, taste, feel and smell, are supposed to change us, open our eyes to our own poverty of heart and spirit. It isn't a fun journey, but God is in it. Chris, you sound a bit the way I felt, when I returned from my last sponsor tour. That’s good. No, it doesn’t *feel* good, but these trips, these ventures into poverty we can see, taste, feel and smell, are supposed to change us, open our eyes to our own poverty of heart and spirit. It isn’t a fun journey, but God is in it.

]]> By: Stevi http://blog.compassion.com/the-poverty-of-me/comment-page-1/#comment-2814 Stevi Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:44:25 +0000 http://blog.compassion.com/?p=609#comment-2814 Thank you so much for sharing. Having been on 11 international mission trips to developing countries, I know I have come away from at least 2 or 3 feeling like I had wasted the opportunity and that I had come back unchanged. You'd think after all those trips I would be a super-Christian, always compassionate, always humble and self-sacrificing. Yeah right. If I don't let God change me, all I come back with is pictures and some nice stories. The question I need to be asking is "what next?" Not just what trip to go on next, or how to do better ministry in Honduras, or how to raise support more effectively. But "what next?" in my daily life, my life here in the U.S. where our brand of darkness is hard to see because we're so used to it. Thank you so much for sharing. Having been on 11 international mission trips to developing countries, I know I have come away from at least 2 or 3 feeling like I had wasted the opportunity and that I had come back unchanged. You’d think after all those trips I would be a super-Christian, always compassionate, always humble and self-sacrificing. Yeah right. If I don’t let God change me, all I come back with is pictures and some nice stories. The question I need to be asking is “what next?” Not just what trip to go on next, or how to do better ministry in Honduras, or how to raise support more effectively. But “what next?” in my daily life, my life here in the U.S. where our brand of darkness is hard to see because we’re so used to it.

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