Lent Week 2: Helpless

The story for this week of lent through World Vision is heart wrenching. It is about a one year old baby that looks half its age, is underweight, and can't crawl yet. This child gets sick a lot with malaria. The problem is that the mom can't afford the medicine to help the child get better without having no money to feed the rest of the family. This poor child is helpless-the mom wishes more than anything that her child could sleep and eat well and not get sick. The fact that this mom has to decided between medicine to help her child and food to feed her family is a situation of many, a very helpless situation.

This week in order to reflect upon feeling helpless I am giving up one thing and hoping to accomplish another.

1. I am taking away something I depend on and that is Facebook. No Facebook for the week will definitely be a challenge and I will have a lot more time on my hands. It will be good for me though to feel helpless in the fact that I won't have the constant, almost creepy updates on peoples' lives for the week.
2. My second goal, my goal of accomplishing something has to do with secrets. The secrets of my life that I keep from the world because of fear. This week I'm going to push myself to be more vulnerable. I want to share with at least 2 people something that they didn't know about me before this week. One of those many secrets that I keep to myself. If you want to talk about this, text me or call me or come find me on campus somewhere and I would love to share my life with you.

This whole week is about feeling helpless and feeling vulnerable, something that I definitely struggle with. I'm just gonna have to trust God this week and trust the people in my life. Trust that it is okay to be vulnerable because not everyone is out to get me and remember that so many people in the world struggle with feeling helpless everyday of their lives.