beautiful

i took this picture when i was in indonesia last year. i dont know her name. she lives five feet away from a railroad track in a little shack. it is one of the saddest things i have ever seen. it truly breaks my heart.

world vision

i am passionate about helping people. my favorite verse in the Bible is James 1:27. "pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this, to visit orphans and widows in their trouble and to keep oneself unspotted from the world."
i try to live my life by this verse. i sponsor a little girl named abigail who lives in bolivia. it is one of the best things i have ever done in my life. if you are interested in helping children please click on the link below.

http://connect.worldvision.org/person/mattmeshey?faf=1&elid=399012068

80,000

7.6 magnitude. 80,000 dead.
what are we going to do about this? it is unacceptable. i cannot, as a Christian, as a human being, live with a clear conscience knowing that 80,000 people are dead from an earthquake. we can send men to the moon, we can pay football players 10 million dollars a year to entertain us and yet we can't save lives of those who are among the poorest in the world. this is not right and i will do everything i can to see that this does not happen again. we must do something.
as edmund burke once said, "the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
let us be the ones who do something. let us be the ones. now. today.

lost

i absolutely love the tv show lost. if you dont know what it is, its about a bunch of people who survived a plane crash and are stuck on an island. they are searching to be found.

the world is lost. they do not know it because they have stopped looking. i guess they think if they stop looking they aren't lost anymore.
when we are born we enter a world where we are lost. this thing that we call life could be given the title of the second jurassic park movie: "the lost world."
i am thankful that i am no longer lost. my name is written in the book of life. let us be the ones who decide today that we will no longer allow those around us to die without knowing that they are lost.

“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened." - matthew 7:7-8

home sweet home

me and some friends in maui