Blessed?

I deserved to be born in The United States.
I deserved to be born in a middle class American home.
I deserved to go to a christian school.
I deserved to go to a baptist church.
I deserved to get a car when I was a teen.
I deserved to go on nice vacations.
I deserved to go shopping whenever I wanted.
I deserved to go to college for two years.


I deserve a good husband.
I deserve a big family.
I deserve a nice house.
I deserve to chase after the American dream.
I deserve to sit in the same church pew all my life.
I deserve to grow old comfortably.

I deserved/deserve ALL these things because I was chosen to.
God chose for me to live the American dream.

God chose the African girl to have aids because thats what she deserves.
God chose the Peruvian boy to live without a family because thats what he deserves.
God chose the Asian man to die for his faith because that is what he deserves.
God chose the Chinese mom to give away here baby because she could not feed it because that is what she deserves.


This is how we are living our lives. As though we deserve good and others deserve to live a hopeless nightmare.

Many people right now are probably thinking I AM SO BLESSED. But I wonder what the mom in china is thinking?.

We say we are so blessed to give God the glory for what we have.. But shouldn't we be giving away our blessing to truly give God the glory?

All picture from past trips to Iquitos, Peru