You tend to form a picture in your mind without any experience to back it up about what life looks like in Afghanistan. Too an extent the grim painting I had in my mind was correct. However, I was humbled yet again by the individuals that make up a country that has been victim to hurt for so many years.
Behind every insurgent, every suicide bomber, there are thousands of individuals who are desire the same things from life as you and I. They do not have the chance to take for granted things like security, economy, freedom, or even a pursuit for real truth. However, many of them carry an unswerving hope for a better future.
This reality, the one based on more than just assumptions, is what has provoked a middle-class banker from southern Indiana to leave the comforts of home for the mountains of Afghanistan. If something as simple as creating jobs or providing education can serve as the conduit for truth and hope (namely the gospel), then I am ashamed to have waited this long.
I cannot speak to what comes next -- but I know for sure, my life is best spent paving a way for the gospel in places where it is not known.
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