Letter from a Birmingham Jail

One of most absolutely beautiful truths of a well-lived life in this letter for me:

 

...if I had been writing from a comfortable desk...

 

I thank God for my discomforts, knowing that they have given me an insight, a compassion, a true empathy that would have been otherwise impossible to gain in the life I now lead; one not without discomfort, but with so much risk of what King writes earlier - of complacency, of insensivity, of paternalism.

 

I humbly ask my Creator to place me in places of discomfort should I ever forget that I've been called to serve, to seek, to dream, and to invest. Thank you for the situations that inspire us to look to You.