DANG IT!

I almost made it 2 months exactly without making a single post.... Haha! Sad, but true. If I was only a few minutes earlier!

I still haven't posted other things I've written, but I promise to do those.... someday. But for now, I wanted to leave you with some thoughts about freedom. Those who live in the US of A should take heed....

We went to Canada to visit some friends yesterday (Friday). At a point late in the evening, he began telling us stories of how he escaped from Iran (he's Iranian, his wife's Kazakhistani but raised in Germany) to get to America. Really crazy stories he told us.... He risked his life so many times, and the lives of his family too.... It's just insane, literally insane. Maybe I'll elaborate at some point, but the next morning at breakfast I asked him, because I really wanted to know, "What is it about America.... What do we have here that would cause you to literally risk everything to get here?" Basically, his answer was "Opportunity." In Iran, there's no opportunities to live a better life.... You get what you get and the few people who are at the top of the government make all the money... by stealing basically.

Anyways, it was just a cool moment, I guess. You hear all the time about people coming from wherever to get to America (or Canada :-) and as Americans, we have no idea really what it is.... the freedom that we have.... it was just a really humbling moment and made me think of how blessed I am.... I could have been born in Iran, or Rwanda, or Russia, or China.... But God put me here "for such a time as this".... mindboggling stuff.

It's late and I gotta get up in.... 6ish hours.... so goodnight, and thank God for freedom!

PS Sorry I'm so bad at this blogging stuff. For some reason, I always think I have to write, like, a "mini-essay" or something.... Instead of just posting things that I like in general.... I'll try to do better in the future. :-)