Arkansas and HPI
It has been almost a week since we arrived in Arkansas to work with Heifer Project International. I am currently in the midst of the break with my student's trips. Our time here has been incredible. HPI is an amazing organization. Their mission is very clear - we will feed the hungry. Everything they are about works towards a world that cares for each other and the earth, seeks harmony in peace through giving and passing on resources, sustainable development, and unity and harmony umong all who exist. How can you not want to rally around a group like that. They are really something else.
The students did supper well. They started to connect with the realities of the world and found themselves striving to be about the change that is needed, on all levels, if we are all to co-exist together. I was sooo proud of them. I am excited to see how the high schoolers fair.
It has been a great week for me. Arkansas is beautiful. I have found such joy and peace in the simplicity of the late evening breezes, beautiful anmals on the ranch, and working hard in the mornings in the gardens in the valley of the Arkansas mountains. It really has been wonderful.
I have found more peace with many of the things I have been wrestling with this summer. It feels like a wave - a big wave, coming. Change is in the air and i'm not sure what that will look like when it's all said and done, but whatever it brings I am ready for it and welcome it. it's that feeling that something needs to change - both within me and outside of me in order for the next song, next chapter to begin. I feel ready for that movement and I know that whatever I decide God will be with me all the way.
Please consider Heifer International - they are seeking to change the world one moment, person, and animal at a time.
check them out at : www.heifer.org
Blessings from Arkansas
posted by melissa at 8:26 PM
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