Books as well as Culture With Laura
Uncomfortable Kisses From Katie
by Laura Scanlon
I’ve been reading Kisses for Katie. It’s an amazing memoir of a immature adult woman named Katie Davis who, at 18 years old, left a life of privilege inwards the the States to alive inwards Uganda. Now inwards her early on twenties, she calls Republic of Uganda her home, has founded a ministry building there, as well as is inwards the procedure of adopting 13 lilliputian girls. Thirteen!
Her storey is amazing all right. But Katie Davis as well as I could never hang out.
She makes a commitment to locomote “Mommy” to these lilliputian girls. She does this without knowing how she volition back upwards them, acre yet promising her parents to come upwards dorsum to the United States, acre yet inwards a human relationship amongst her swain dorsum inwards the States.
Katie writes close letting Jesus inwards as well as having her pump explode.
Just reading her storey makes my caput explode.
She makes me uncomfortable.
John Paul II 1 time told a grouping of immature people, “You were non made for comfort.”
Oh, but Your Holiness, you lot don’t know me personally. I am made for comfort! Really I am.
My electrical flow dry soil inwards life gives me an out. I sure enough can’t run out my ain lilliputian girls as well as pack upwards as well as caput to Uganda. Whether or non I’ve been alone brave upwards until now, my calling for the fourth dimension beingness is clear enough.
But it’s slow for me to overstep away comfortable as well as justify it. I “need” to slumber inwards oft then I’m non grumpy amongst my family. I “need” a comfortable describe of piece of job solid inwards which to attention for them. I “need” java as well as chocolate as well as dinners out. I “need” a squeamish novel purse. I ask a squeamish life, dang it!
I’m non alone ashamed of my comforts. Especially non the sleep.
But thank you lot to Katie Davis, forthwith I’m but a flake uncomfortable.
Laura is a Catholic Christian, a mother, a part-time lawyer, as well as a recovering overthinker. She writes monthly hither at on books as well as culture, as well as blogs regularly at This Felicitous Life.
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