Day 1: Crazy, Foolish, Ridiculous

It's the day before 09-09-09 when we'll do something never done before: raise $81,000 in a single day to stop child trafficking.

It may seem odd at this moment to be thinking about my high school biology teacher.

Mr. Bateson spent a lot less time teaching us about frog innards than he did teaching us life lessons. At the time, his monologues about life used to annoy me because I knew tests were coming and I wouldn’t know the difference between a lung and a liver.

Flash forward a number of decades.  I can’t remember a thing about frogs—but I still remember one of Mr. Bateson’s favorite lines: “It’s better to aim for the moon and miss than to aim for the gutter and make it.”

Today, 24 hours before trying something that seems like aiming for the moon, I’m remembering his words.  And the words of someone else who told us just to step out on the water and trust Him.

It’s absolutely crazy to think we can raise $81,000 in one day. It’s totally foolish to think we can someday see the end of child trafficking. It’s ridiculous to hope I’ll be out of a job someday.

Sometimes the things that are foolish in the eyes of the world are pretty sane and normal and business-as-usual in the eyes of God.

So, thank you for being part of such a crazy, foolish, ridiculous thing.

Thank you to everyone who has already donated $9 or is ready to donate...posted something on their blog about 09-09-09...tweeted about it...Facebooked about it...emailed 9 friends about it...prayed for me...prayed for the kids we’re trying to keep from being trafficked...and more.

Thank you for joining me as together we aim for the moon. 

   

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