goodness wins

for starters i just want to assure you that just incase you had any doubts at all: Goodness triumphs over evil. i mean i know we know this to be true because jesus is going to come back and freaking clean house and right this world once and for all but even in the meantime goodness wins!! why? because anything that is bad is only a perversion of something that is good. see mere christianity for more on the subject...i really liked his rational on that one. God is good and this is HIS world and thats just comforting. anyway this is going to be quick because i smell really bad and sitting still like this makes me very aware of that fact (and probably the poor people around me too) plus this key board is a peice of crap so i apologize in advance for any typos:) this last week was good-busy and rainy but good. the youth symposium went really well-there were a lot of last minute changes and a lot of flexibility but all in all i think it was a very good thing. about 60 people came and stayed for the entire thing which is way cool and the money was raised and the youth asked difficult questions and there was good discussion and everything. there was plenty of room for improvement but all in all it was a success. the district office of youth affairs asked us to do more in different areas they have projects in and all these people were saying we should have one at least every month. they kept asking me when the next one was but i told them the torch had been passed and now they have the opportunity to finish what i started! i sincerely hope they will.
i am busy with plans for the competition that is involving five children's homes in teh area as well as continuing to do murals in the new baby centre and work on the preschool sponsorship program (b-trop is a champ for helping with the design) so you should all check out happyafrica.org and sponsor a preschooler for christmas they are each precious and wonderful and in serious serious need...i mean i know all the excuses you might have for not sponsoring a child over seas but let me just assure you that their need is WAY more than yours will ever be. their stories are heart wrenching-literally. mean the things these kids have seen and been through are horrendous and a part of this ridiculous cycle that has no easy answer or solution. i have really been wrestling wtih that lately. i mean this entire country (not to mention the continent) have MAJOR structural changes that need to take place-economic, emotional, psychological, GOVERNMENTAL changes that need to happen. the culture of pverty is stifling and suffocating ingenuity and creativity with the aid of the education system which is a part of a corrupt government which creates/sustains a culture of deceit and corruption which is aided by/created by poverty which results from a complete lack of jobs and misuse of resources which has been perpetuated by decades of microsolutions that do nothing for the future while all along people are having 9 kids that they cant provide for and things just get messier.
thank goodess that goodness wins and that JESUS IS COMING BACK. meanwhile i will continue to love the one in front of me knowing that this is not my kingdom or my home but that my treasure is in heaven. lets not forget that there is enough for everyones need but not for everyones greed.
hopefully that will act as an inspiration to spur you on to good works for the kingdom of heaven rather than depress you into passivity because the latter would be tragic and the former will bring abudence and a transcendent peace to guard your heart!
shalom