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Homecoming comes once a year
and there’s this competition where whoever has the biggest mum
gets announced at the Pep Rally.
It just turned into this… big..status thing where people are trying to out-buy each other
I thought… what if my high school could do something with this excessive tradition
to give people in the Sudan clean water.
I was born to two incredible parents who have loved me very well.
I have a father who makes a decent amount of money.
So I guess I have had the childhood growing up
like the world has probably said is a perfect childhood, the perfect way to grow up.
I step off a plane coming from a city where most of the Moms drive Lexus’
and most of the kids get new cars on their sixteenth birthday.
And I step out of the plane and I see that most people are walking.
We drive through thet village and
I see a girl bathing in the middle of the street because she doesn’t have anywhere
else to take a bath
and it… it smells bad and there’s houses that are built out of trash.
I’ve looked at that and said
how can God allow such pain and such hurt and such anguish on these people.
Then I kinda like started to look at my life and like the life of my community.
And I was kinda asking the question,
"What if we starting asking how could God allow us to be so distracted?"
Like what if we changed the question to like how could God let us to be so affluent?
Yes, it’s horrible that we see this poverty
but we realize that Jesus has using the poor a have to rely completely and totally and
whole heartedly on Jesus.
Jesus is contentment and everything that I have is only temporary happiness.
Ever since I was born, I mean right out of the womb,
my Mom and my Dad have been reading me Bible stories
and they have been praying with me and they have been so great that
as I’ve grown up they’ve backed up and said “you know you have to make this faith
your own”.
I’m sitting with a friend at lunch and
we were looking around at just the mums and the garters.
We could totally use this tradition for something WAY, WAY cool.
And we were like what if we had somebody just donate the money they would have used to buy
like a mum or garter
and they bought like a button that just said like “I sent my mum to Africa” or something.
What if our white, middle-class high school could do something
with this excessive tradition to give people in the Sudan clean water?
I don’t think it matters whether you have a lot of money or not a lot of money,
every human being somewhere deep in their soul is looking for something more than what
they see.
What Jesus is to me is a …is that ultimate thirst quencher, I guess ….
I mean there is no other way to put it except that Jesus is the ultimate contentment for
me.
And that was what was trying to be portrayed through this project.
My name is Blake Mankin and I am Second.