After visiting Sudan, Kimberly L. Smith, in this book, Passport Through Darkness says of the experience,

"Every fiber of my being resisted slipping comfortably back into my safe, climate-controlled environment where abundant water quenched my thirst, filled my tub, flushed my waste, and even offered an endless array of recreation."  

Oh Lord, help me to realize and appreciate my blessings and to pass them on to others.

She goes on to say at the end of the book, "Those of use who wake up longing to know more than the rote answers our culture gives us~ who long to recapture that dream God first held as He formed us in His hands will indeed risk all to live that dream, be that dream.
Here, with our hearts being wildly, taking stock of all that is at stake, we consider the loss, including life itself.  Our bodies wane, weaken, and prepare to die even as we hope against all hope.  Clinging to the truth of the resurrection, we throw off our fears and jump into the fray of life holding nothing of ourselves back.  Here, in the unavoidable tussle of life and death, the dance floor opens for us to place our hand in His, trust His lead, and sway in the adoring arms of our Great Lover, our God."

 Lord, may my life verses become true of me.  Please show me how...

⁷ But whatever were gains to me I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. ⁸ What is more, I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them garbage, that I may gain Christ ⁹ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ—the righteousness that comes from God on the basis of faith. ¹⁰ I want to know Christ—yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, ¹¹ and so, somehow, attaining to the resurrection from the dead.  Phillipians 3:7-10