I am here in Chicago, IL, staying at North Park University on a mission trip with First Covenant Church of Red Wing, MN (my internship). We have been doing all this work for different ministries and I realized something crucial today: I am far more concerned with the group's understanding of what is happening than with my own spiritual awakenings this week.
This whole week has been spent making sure the group understands what is happening around them. I want them to see the poverty and injustices. However, while trying to help them see that there are incredible mistakes in humanity, I forget that we are serving in my part time community! I live here nine months out of the year and I didn't even know these things were here. I need to focus on what I learning, not just what they group is learning. and I need to be humbled by this experince and be shown that I am not the center of the world. There are people all around needing help and I do not know everything.
