Well, it's the new year. People making resolutions left and right, half of them not being able to be fulfilled all year. Fitness clubs will see all-time high attendance records, fad diets will be running rampant.
I was thinking about a resolution, but decided I didn't want to make one. After all, if you don't make one, then you can't be disappointed when it doesn't work out.
As I was lying in bed, contemplating the next year, my dearest JBrown called me. We started talking about this next year, and she brought up what our resolution should be: "We should go to a foreign country on a mission trip and take pictures of kids while we're there."
Immediately, the pictures I have seen of African children with flies under their noses and emaciated stomachs came to mind. Do I want to take pictures of the most pitiful children I can find, hoping to change lives of gluttonous Americans and lead them to open their wallets to these children and their families?
The simple answer: No.
I do want to go on a missions trip, hopefully semi-long term, and I want to do it to India. But when I'm there, I don't necessarily want to find the children that will most move the hearts of those halfway across the globe: I want to find the children that show the reality of India. I honestly do not know what I will find, or what the reality will be, but I will be armed with a healthy body to work and a camera (God-willing) to record this reality.
So, my resolution for 2008: Save up money for my 2009 resolution: going to India.
Haphaphappy New Years everyone!
-Jenessa
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