I have never in my life felt as small as I did today. My fearless friend and I drove from the Dead Sea to Petra.
Both the map and a few internet searches indicated that the road was at times, treacherous. If I'd had any indication of what I was going to see today, I promise you, I would have not gone.
We got on this small, hardly paved road and drove for about 30 kilometers (about an hour) at a slow speed. I have never been more afraid in my life of a car breaking down. My friend (who owes me a hug after I didn't totally freak out and he ultimately rescued me) was so calm on the road.
But that wasn't the best part. I had the privilege to see a part of the earth today that only a small percentage have seen. It's incredibly breathtaking, but so outrageously isolated that I'm finding it hard to put together the words to tell you what I saw.
What I can tell you, is how it made feel. I have never felt so small and so insignificant in my entire life. To know the brevity that God alone know each crook and hidden place in the magnificence that I saw today is too much for words. Littered along the highway were Bedouin families. The isolation they live in is kind of unfathomable to me. When I return home, I'm going to go back to my apartment alone, sleep in my huge comfy bed alone, and get back to life.
But my problem is that I've seen too much.
I've seen how some people on the other side of the world live, and frankly, I cannot afford to be so comfortable in my spoiled little rich life. If I'm the woman and the Christian that God has called me to be, I'm going to have to work to not put back on the materialistic blinders that I wear so frequently.
I'm going to have to be different. I AM different.
There is an older Christian song that includes the following line:
"You make the road rise up to meet me"
Today, more than ever before, I understand COMPLETELY what that means.
xoxo,
Jenn
Both the map and a few internet searches indicated that the road was at times, treacherous. If I'd had any indication of what I was going to see today, I promise you, I would have not gone.
We got on this small, hardly paved road and drove for about 30 kilometers (about an hour) at a slow speed. I have never been more afraid in my life of a car breaking down. My friend (who owes me a hug after I didn't totally freak out and he ultimately rescued me) was so calm on the road.
But that wasn't the best part. I had the privilege to see a part of the earth today that only a small percentage have seen. It's incredibly breathtaking, but so outrageously isolated that I'm finding it hard to put together the words to tell you what I saw.
What I can tell you, is how it made feel. I have never felt so small and so insignificant in my entire life. To know the brevity that God alone know each crook and hidden place in the magnificence that I saw today is too much for words. Littered along the highway were Bedouin families. The isolation they live in is kind of unfathomable to me. When I return home, I'm going to go back to my apartment alone, sleep in my huge comfy bed alone, and get back to life.
But my problem is that I've seen too much.
I've seen how some people on the other side of the world live, and frankly, I cannot afford to be so comfortable in my spoiled little rich life. If I'm the woman and the Christian that God has called me to be, I'm going to have to work to not put back on the materialistic blinders that I wear so frequently.
I'm going to have to be different. I AM different.
There is an older Christian song that includes the following line:
"You make the road rise up to meet me"
Today, more than ever before, I understand COMPLETELY what that means.
xoxo,
Jenn
3 comments:
Oh. Jen. I love how this trip is changing your heart...changing you. Beautiful.
I so badly want to go to Petra some day!
Fabulous Jenn!!! I hear you!
Hugs
SueAnn
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