hardships and "safe" living...

I love being connected to things that are foreign to me. Things that may seem painful, seem hard, seem unfair and maybe even a little outside of God's plan. These foreign realities that people live, day in and day out, challenge me to examine my "safe" little life and wonder how I can push the edges. How can I stop simply existing and start learning, growing, changing and reaching with both hands for a God who created me, who created joy and pain, who created rain and sun and who loves me more than I will ever, ever be able to comprehend. I don't want to simply exist. I want to expand and fill in all the cracks and all the uneven edges in this crazy, broken world that we live in. It's a lofty goal... I'm off to start achieving it.