Extremes

I wrote this in my journal on February 5 on the drive to Umzinto (that’s where we actually went, not Durban).

“I keep finding myself wanting to separate these two worlds. This weekend was portrayed to be relaxing and fun, and seeing the first world part of South Africa. Yet just as we drive, we’re going through areas of poverty. Houses with tin roofs. Some with tin roofs and tin walls. And I’m realizing more and more each day that you can’t separate the first and third world in this place. That is what makes up South Africa. The extremes: extreme poverty, extreme wealth, extreme beauty. It’s all here. And as hard as it can be at times, it’s impossible to separate the two.

This place is heartbreakingly beautiful. But in the midst of the colliding of worlds, I see God. I see His beauty, His creation, His power and might. It’s a beautiful collision.”