OLD Heart for Africa Newsletter Archive

These Blogs Have Been Closed!

They are for archive purposes only.

Please see our new blog Here

My Photo
Name:
Location: United States

I'm on a journey with a set destination. Heaven! I want to journey well and bless those traveling alongside me. I don't want to sit - I want to make progress - everyday.

Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Why vacation when you can go on a life changing adventure?


Imagine, you’re on a cruise ship; you eat and sleep, read a book at pool side, catch a show or two and hit the shore for an excursion of snorkeling and shopping! You head home and get back to the grind. You share some pictures with friends and work hard to make up the debt you’ve incurred. The joy of it all wears off and you’re dreaming of next year again.

Now imagine you go to a land that makes you feel closer to GOD. You toil in a garden and play with some orphan children and meet people from a culture that you often wondered about. You even see animals that you’d thought you might only see in a zoo or a circus show, up close and personal in the wild. You’re just as comfortable in the accommodations and equally fed.

But…
You start journaling, because you’ve experienced soooo… much that you don’t EVER want to forget a second of it. Every emotion is at peak awareness. The Spirit in you has found new life. You make friends for life. You feel the eternal bond and your heart swells with joy, TRUE JOY!

You head home and you’re still so high, your feet haven’t hit the ground after half a year of sharing it with everyone you encounter! The entire cost was tax deductible and everything in your life has changed. You look forward to going to work; you look at your children, parents, employer, neighbors and friends differently. You’ve gone through a paradigm shift in your perspective of the meaning of life. You’re continually blessed with the stories of others who say they were inspired by your trip and story and the way you life has changed. You look forward to seeing the same change in them, when they return and relive the excitement with them.

I’ve been there done that and I’m begging you, “Get out of the Boat,” and walk where you never dared before. I promise, you’ll be changed forever and the entire world, more than you can ask or imagine.

Right NOW; Go to www.heartforafrica.org and educate yourself about this non-vacation adventure opportunity of a life time. Then go to www.itsnotokwithme.com and buy Janine Maxwell’s new book. Read it share it and answer the title question. When you’ve done that, you’ll be ready to sign up and watch GOD work in your life, like you’ve never known!

Listen, in the whisper of the wind, your name is being called….

Written by David Lee Waters, Sr.