Is Your Head Above Water?

Why not Come up for air?

Join us this coming Thursday evening, February 25th, at World Vision, as Margaret Becker shares with us the journey she embarked upon some years ago, to discover and live out her life's mission statement.

Will you Discover Your Vision?
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Excerpt from Maggie B's book:
I've made it to Ghana, Africa, with World Vision. Hot. Hot. Hot.
Morning started early here. I was shocked awake by the sound of a chicken--somebody's prized possession--singing out. It doesn't know it's on borrowed time, but I know better.

The voices in the distance remind me that I know nothing of how the other side of the world lives, and although I wrapped my sweater around my ears, the thump and cock-a-doodle-do still bled through, when curiosity got the better of me. I pulled my cot to the wall, which had a window about six feet off the ground. I stood up on the thin mattress with precarious balance and peered out the opening.

It was a soccer game: grown men playing soccer on a patch of gray dirt. How unlike the U.S., where it's a chore to get up first thing in the morning. Here it was 5:30 a.m., and these guys were playing a game of soccer in ninety degree heat. It's not like they needed to lose weight or even that they would have pent-up energy. They barely got one meal a day. They work in the fields for a living. Why were they playing?

What if we all played just to play, for the love of play? Laugh more, sleep better, have better relationships. In all my life planning, I'd forgotten about "the love of the game."

It was the next day when I--newly freed--was approached by some village girls. In one of their hands was a small stone. With it they traced a grid on the ground that resembled a hopscotch board.

We played until the seam between us disappeared and I became just another playmate to be included, to be beaten, to pass the time with. And in the language of play, we ultimately parted, without fanfare or remorse. The days are endless when spent like that. The games will begin again tomorrow. It is part of life. And I will be there to play.