Today is Ash Wednesday AND Valentine’s Day. It is a sacrifice and love kind of day. Perhaps, a day to do some good.
It has also been one week since I celebrated a significant birthday. On that day and this, a song is on my mind, or maybe it’s in my heart. Now, I am sitting on a plane headed back to home to Dallas, with tears running down my face, listening again to CeCe Winans sing, Goodness of God. And, I am undone.
Because all my life is no longer an insignificant number of days. It is more than 20,000 spectacular sunrises and remarkable sunsets. And, I am awestruck by the truth of God’s faithfulness. Humbled.
“All my days,” CeCe sings, “from the moment that I wake up, until I lay my head…And all my life you have been faithful. And all my life you have been so, so good. With every breath that I am able. Oh, I will sing of the goodness of God.”
This truth is something I cannot ignore. It requires something from me. You see, one cannot know something true and not know there’s an obligation to share it and pass it on.
This is only part of the reason that I shared a fundraising project on my Facebook timeline. God’s faithfulness is manifested by the people who tread upon this earth. It’s the Spirit of God working with human hands and feet that get us where we are going, provides glimmers of hope, and points us back to True North, and places our feet on pathways to the Holy.
There are two girls, Nzigire and Ahadi, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, who I want to know this goodness. It is why I support them at Congo Restoration Primary School for Girls. In the DRC, there is no free education and patriarchy probibits many girls in rural areas from getting even a basic education.
To share the goodness of an education is my great privilege and honor. Yet, it is just the first thread in what I want to do for these girls and women. It is part of why I sent a text to my friend, Dawn McMullan, earlier in the year asking for a seat on the board of this fantastic organization: Congo Restoration.
Stay tuned. I want to tell you next why I asked you all to support the development of a real library at the school.
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