Our fearless gnome, Archie, leading the charge across the country
It seems like yesterday I flew across the country to start this whirlwind of an adventure. I’ve worked. I’ve trained. I’ve laughed. I’ve loved. I’ve been immersed in some of the most intense community I’ve ever been around (try living in one house with the same 63 people you work with on a daily basis). I have committed to change, not only in the necessity of bending my own will to best fit those around me, but to power ceaselessly towards the goal of ending the longest running war in Africa. I never knew that coming here would teach me so much or introduce me to some of the most wonderful people whom I have ever had the pleasure of meeting. Of course, I had my assumptions, but being here has forever changed me, and I haven’t even started doing what I came here to do.
But that’s about to change… Today 17 teams of 4 are dispersing across the United States to tell a story of tragedy, loss, and inhumanity. But the story doesn’t end there. It ends with hope and a way to make a real change. I’m fighting for something incomprehensibly larger than myself, and I have more purpose than ever. I still can’t tell you what I will be doing this time next year, but I have so much confident faith that this is exactly where I am supposed to be right now. I am excited to continue following God’s call one step at a time, and am ecstatic that his next step for me led me here. So, I’m in a van (loving wi-fi cards) driving across the country these next four days back to the Southeast to share a story that has changed my life and will change thousands more. I can’t wait.
Let us be dissatisfied until from every city hall, justice will roll down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream. Let us be dissatisfied until that day when the lion and the lamb shall lie down together, and every man will sit under his own vine and fig tree and none shall be afraid. Let us be dissatisfied. And men will recognize that out of one blood God made all men to dwell upon the face of the earth. Let us be dissatisfied until that day when nobody will shout “White Power!” — when nobody will shout “Black Power!” — but everybody will talk about God’s power and human power.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
