need to blog

if i had a $1 for every time i think about writing on this thing...
anyway, i'm inspired by another friend's blog. there's so much in my heart i want to express to the world.
currently i'm back in limbo. caught somewhere between nashville and new zealand... yet i continue to discover we are all in transit no matter where on the planet we are. "you are today becoming what you will someday be" is my new favorite quote. it's true. you're in transition toward becoming _____. what are you becoming? a dad? a rocket scientist? a dolphin trainer? a president? an author? a world changer?
i have a dream. it's a dream that is crazy in modern-day language. it goes against all odds and fights against all hope. it's true, it's passionate, and it's ever moving forward even if i decide to forget about it. God's Kingdom on earth as it is in heaven. I want to see and live and eat and breath that. sometimes i feel that if i laid out the dreams of my heart people would look at me like i'm some sort of goofy disney character. i do believe there is beauty and love and hope even where it looks like none exsists. i want to be a part of that. i want to be a part of the impossible.

Every 3.6 seconds someone starves to death and 3/4 are children under the age of 5.

Nearly 1 billion people are illiterate; more than 1 billion people do not have access to safe water; some 840 million people go hungry or face food insecurity; about one-third of all children under five suffer from malnutrition.

Each year, millions of girls and boys are exploited — they are raped, forced into early marriage, enslaved in the global sex trade or used for bonded labor.

I don't want to just read about these things. I'm not going to die haven't thrown up my hands to these issues simply because the problems seem too big. "What difference can I really make?" A huge one. YOU can make a huge difference. You've heard it said, "the only thing it takes for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing." It's true.

What are you going to DO?