If you know me even a little bit, you know how in love I am with Ireland (the entire island, not just the republic). I've dreamed of living there, of raising my kids there, of finding my past and making my future there.
The problem is, I don't know what to do when I get there. I know that I want to work in reconciliation between Catholics and Protestants, especially now that the IRA is seemingly back in business following the Good Friday Agreement.
So my options are either to work in their government, trying to achieve reconciliation that way, or work in a church that does the same thing. I wrote a whole big long plan involving track-two diplomacy to reconcile those on either side, but that was based entirely on secondhand knowledge - interviews, books, etc.
Now the issue is, how do I get myself accepted into Irish reconciliation work? I honestly have no idea. I guess I don't have much of a right to try to keep the ball rolling, since I'm not from there, but I just feel like I have to. I feel compelled to, called to, like my mission is bigger than I am. I guess I can trust God to lead me there if that's where He wants me to be ("do not be terrified, do not be discouraged..."). I just want to know how it's all going to work out.
Man I hate waiting.
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