discovering (and delighting in) the connectedness of people around the world
Sunday, May 4, 2008
Fredimix & Figinski
These brothers sometimes live in the other house on our property. Our landlord is their father. They have, simultaneously, broken and captured my heart.
“(Ubuntu) is part of the gift that Africa will give the world.
It embraces hospitality, caring about others, being able to go the extra mile for the sake of others. We believe that a person is a person through another person, that my humanity is caught up, bound up, inextricably, with with yours.
When I dehumanise you, I inexorably dehumanise myself. The solitary human being is a contradiction in terms and therefore you seek to work for the common good because your humanity comes into its own in belonging”.
Eric and I are spending one year volunteering and interning for NGO's in Haiti, Argentina, Tanzania and Thailand. Thank you for sharing the journey with us.
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