Throughout the book, Claiborne suggests many options in which we can (ultimately) change the world. In a sense, he is one of the mordern day prophets of God, silently speaking and showing us the way of God. He doesn't do this by preaching per se, but by his actions and revelations that we could somehow relate to in a sense.
His want of meeting Mother Teresa and living in India has most definitely earned him some kudos from me, but what gets to me is that he doesn't go on mission trips to help make himself a better person, but to help others see another view of things. When he wrote about his experience in Iraq, it definitely shed another meaning to this on-going war. To me, this war has been/is so dragged out, that I rarely think about it- the fact that everyday, someone is hurt. Claiborne describes one time when he was attending a birthday party, and then bombs were going off not too far from them, yet the attendees of the party still remain. Those people are so used to that harsh lifestyle that it is still incomprehensible to me. It is injust that bombs are going off, hurting innocent people, and the fact is, we're involved in it.
Claiborne brings out ideas and views that we don't usually think about, like walking in another person's shoes to see how they live, or living to the extreme, as if this day were our last. What would we regret?
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
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