What a long week!

That is how life goes. You do something’s for others or things that may not necessarily get you ultimately fired up for life. But then you get to do something for yourself, something you love, and something that brings you a bit of happiness before you head back to doing the stuff of life.

My week is like this. I'm helping the team with VBS all week. It is in my job description and I'm somewhat excited about the curriculum that we picked. However, of a list of things that bring me a ton of joy, VBS would not be on it. So to add a lump of sugar onto my hectic week, I am going to go visit half a million friends of mine in Philly.

One half hour after VBS comes to a close Friday night, Jamie, Michael and myself with start a long over night adventure to Philadelphia, PA. While there, we will be joining over a half a million people in what is sure to go down as the largest show of support to end world poverty in the history of man.

For those of you who have no clue what I am referring to, visit www.live8live.com or watch MTV or VH1 anytime on Saturday. There are real solutions for poverty through out the world that can come about this year, the year 2005.

My Grandparents can tell the story about where they were and what they were doing when WWII ended, my parents can tell me stories of what was happening when they heard about President Kennedy getting shot. And I can tell stories about being in the locker room when I heard about the space shuttle challenger blowing up or where I was when the Berlin Wall fell. All of these are infamous moments in world history, keystones to the building my world view. But as great moments in history, all of them combined could never over shadow the eradication of world poverty.

So what will your story be? When generations look back to the culminating factors that led to the end of hunger and pain in the world, where will you be in that story? Will you be standing by the side with your finger up your nose not even realizing the immensity of the moment? (Which isn't much of a story to tell anyone). Or will you be able to share examples of the things you did to act as a catalyst for changing the world?

Do life different!