An "aha" moment

I've been really struggling to understand what my fears are as we mentally start to prepare to come back to the United States...but I found this quote on a new friend's blog, and had an "aha" moment. THIS is what I fear going back to.

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"The life of uttermost service cannot be called comfortable. 'Comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house as guest, and then becomes a host, and then master. Ay, and it becomes a tamer, and with hook and scourge makes puppets of your larger desires. Though its hands are silken, its heart is of iron. Verily, the lust for comfort murders the passion of the soul, and then walks grinning to the funeral.' It is true; but it is one thing to applaud it as truth and quite another thing to turn from that lust that murders the passion of the soul, for the sake of these for whom Christ died.

But no one who has done so would exchange this way of living for any other."

-Amy Carmichael, quoting Kahlil Gibran

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