"Ooh!" Said Susan, "I'd thought he was a man. Is he - quite safe? I shall feel rather nervous about meeting a lion."
"That you will, dearie, and no mistake," said Mrs. Beaver; "if there's anyone who can appear before Aslan without their knees locking, they're either braver than most or else just silly."
"Then he isn't safe?" said Lucy?
"Safe?" said Mr. Beaver; "don't you hear what Mrs. Beaver tells you? Who said anything about safe? 'Course he isn't safe. But he's good. He's the king, I tell you."
- The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, C.S. LewisNope, not safe at all, particularly if your version of safe involves a carefully constructed world that ought never to be turned upside down. Because, He tends to do things like...
...in the middle of a village with no water source...
fundraiser + need = solution!
They held a yard sale that raised over $800 in one day, and are currently selling bracelets and other crafts here to raise the funds for a $4,000 well. (Check out their blog to see what they're up to. The full story of the adventure should be up soon.)
But, really, that wasn't the start of the story at all.
Really, there was a team in Haiti this summer...
...because a different group went last summer...
Last summer, one of the girls wore her "water bracelet" to Haiti. Last summer, one of the guys from this year's team sat with the Focus group discussing names for a fundraiser that would turn out to be for a village that he would visit on a trip that he didn't even know he was going on.
Last summer, we didn't know anything more than that we were being obedient. We never dreamed how far that obedience would take us!
Never safe. Never tame. But, always good.
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