People keep asking me why I’m going to Burkina Faso. It’s a simple and obvious question, but for the longest time I struggled to answer it adequately.
I have a profound belief that God has called me to Burkina Faso to do his work. But somehow just saying that didn’t explain it all. And so I would attempt to explain how I’d come about deciding to go to Africa- until I remembered a passage from a book I read last June that just summed it all up. The book is The Irresistible Revolution Living as an Ordinary Radical by Shane Claiborne.
Here it is:
"I remember hearing about an old comic strip back in the days of St. Ed's. Two guys are talking to each other and, and one of them says he has a question for God. He wants to ask why God allows all of this poverty and war and suffering to exist in the world. And his friend says, "Well, why don't you ask?" The fellow shakes his head and says he is scared. When his friend asks why, he mutters, "I'm scared God will ask me the same question."
