Bishop Charles and I teaching in Kenya, 2013. 

There has been a lot of talk about one our Ministry Partners, Bishop Charles this week.  Bishop Charles was involved in a Sports Camp that was attacked, and people were injured.  It has been hard for me to get my mind around that. How can we live in a world where children can not go to sports camp without threat of danger?  Of course, we see kids go to school here with a threat of danger.  It is in these cases of senseless violence that I find my self "poor in Spirit".  I have been thinking about that a lot the last two weeks.  What does it mean to be poor in Spirit?  It means that we are helpless to do anything else but cry out to God and ask for His healing, his strength.  We are powerless.  However,  He WANTS us to be part of His story.  He WANTS us to pray, to come to Him.  So, I do.  In the middle of tragic events it is all I can do.  But that is powerful!  It is everything.  Asking God to unleash His mighty power on behalf of those that are suffering.  I want to be a part of that.  It may be all I can do, but it is powerful.  Let me challenge you to do the same.  When you are poor in spirit, back up and let God be mighty!