Some things you just can't shake...

And this book is one of them! I'm reading "Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream" and I just can't stop thinking about it! It seems that something that keeps coming back in my life, over and over, is this phrase, " God grant me the SERENITY to accept the things I cannot change, the COURAGE to change the things I can, and the WISDOM to know the difference." I read those words as a little girl at my great grandma kleiman's house on a small stain-glassed plaque that hung in her kitchen window, 20 years later, my gramsie gave it to me and now it sits in my kitchen window, and I read it every day. This is my prayer for my life. My prayer is that I change this world for Christ, because of Him, and for His sake one thing at a time- and that I always have the courage to do it.  I have life, food, shelter, transportation, luxuries that make my stomach churn when I stop and realize that there are BILLIONS in this world who have nothing. Sons and daughters just like our precious children whose parents cannot feed them, and here I sit thinking how nice it would be to have a deck and a fenced in backyard. God forgive our careless, indignant attitude towards the poor, forgive us for justifying our self-indulgence. But don't just forgive us, change us. God's people cannot be the ones who sit back and do nothing while the world waits. Would I really be willing to sell everything I have to give it to the poor as Jesus commands? I don't know about everything,I'm getting there. But I want to be radical. Biblical.