BlakeAustin

There is a dynamic tension between our reality and our ideal, between what we have and our dream, between earth and heaven. Imagine yourself a guest in another culture  on the other side of the planet whose people speak another language, have a different religion, and prepare different foods, build different cities. How might that experience alter your perception of the ideal? What if you could speak their tongue and adopt their culture? Would you accept all of it or just parts of it you like? Would they accept you and would you accept them?  Always? Could your experience help your leaders when you return who have never had that experience? Upon your return would you like your experience to be treated as valuable or viewed with suspicion and derision?