The only way to care for the disadvantaged is to disadvantage yourself

Ann Voskamp writes about her trip to Africa in today's post at A Holy Experience.

The only way to care for the disadvantaged – is to disadvantage yourself – which is guaranteed to turn out for your advantage.

Waking to Joseph Kony and his Lord’s Resistance Army stealing over 60,000 children from these red roads right here, hacking off limbs in the middle of the night, making daughters into pleasuring-slaves.

I watch a woman drag a bundle of wood, shoes tied to her ankles, each step slapping the earth – because her own feet are malformed backwards.

I’m slapped awake now.

And this is what Anna's family had for dinner, because Anna caught them near her burning candle at night.