Shackled by the comfort of my couch

After returning from my last trip to Uganda I was in this odd funk. I didn’t know what to do with myself. I didn’t know why God had brought me there. I had a whole mess of questions, mixed with a whole mess of emotions.

I stumbled upon a song by Andrew Peterson that helped me sort out my experience and give purpose to my trip. I hope you take the time to listen to it and that it makes as deep an impact on you as it does on me. Here are some lyrics to the song that are specifically meaningful to me…
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‘Cause I’m just a little jealous of the nothing that you have.

You’re unfettered by the wealth of a world that we pretend is gonna last.

They say God blessed us with plenty, I say you’re blessed with poverty
‘Cause you never stop to wonder whether earth is just a little better than the Land of the Free

Well, I’m weary of the spoils of my ambition

and I’m shackled by the comfort of my couch

I wish I had the courage to deny these of myself

and start to store my treasure in the clouds
‘Cause this is not my home, I do not belong

where the antelope and the buffalo roam.