"For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do." Ephesians 2:10.
If you have not read this book yet, put it on your list. It will be worth the time invested. It is the story of Greg Mortenson, and how he came to be building schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
What I appreciate most about the book is how clearly he was the right man for this job, and how his life prepared him to be able to do this. He is the son of missionaries, and at one point in his life he was an Emergency Room nurse with his life focused on rock climbing. It might have been easy for him or his parents to wonder if he would ever "make something" of his life. And yet the truth was that his passions and skills were exactly what he needed for a specific and very difficult path and yet very meaningful path that God had yet to open up. When it did open up, he walked out the good works that God had prepared him to be able accomplish. It took courage and resolve, but he had what it took. I read this as a reminder that we never know what may lie right around the corner to be done by us.
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