The Road to De-Mask Us

8.21.15

I am so blessed to have opportunity to experience how valuable relationships are. After visiting the Lisingita Primary School, we were able to visit the bomas of the Tinga Village. The walk to the villages must have been a little less than two miles. I would say that walking those two miles was the most eye-opening walk that I have ever taken. I have never been on a walk that was so loving and relational. Everyone that we came across was willing to talk and say “mambo!” or “poa!” The simplicity of their lives allowed them to value the important things: people and loving on others.

This reminded me of the simplicity chapter of Celebration of Discipline where it says, “Contemporary culture lacks both the inward reality and the outward life-style of simplicity. We must live in the modern world, and we are affected by its fractured and fragmented state. We are trapped in a maze of competing attachments. One moment we make decisions on the basis of sound reason and the next moment out of fear of what others will think of us. We have no unity or focus around which our lives are oriented.” (Foster, 80). I can really relate to this because I have realized that the culture in America is so different i We are tied up in our own worries and unnecessary thoughts that we disregard the realty that really matters: friendship, conversation, bonding, and showing others the love that God gave us. I put up a mask that stopped me from fully involving myself in the pursuit of quality friendship and relationships. It was really time for me to put away this mask for good. This is what today taught me.

In terms of living out loud the love we have for others. It’s so easy for us to get caught up in social media, finishing our errands, or even studying. We have insane attachments to these things. Being so inwardly focus affects the way we live outwardly. We forget that there is a whole world outside of our own bubbles.