This work. . .

Ken Kraybill, training specialist and Director with the Center for Social Innovation and and co-director of t3,  wrote the following.

This work. . .

exhilarating

and exhausting

drives me up a wall

and opens doors I never imagined

lays bare a wide range of emotions

yet leaves me feeling numb beyond belief

provides tremendous satisfaction

and leaves me feeling profoundly helpless

evokes genuine empathy

and provides a fearsome intolerance within me

puts me in touch with deep suffeirng

and points me tworard greater wholeness

brings me face to face with many poverties

and enriches me enoucnter by encournter

renews my hope

and dealves me grasping for faith

enables me to envision a future

but with no ability to control it

breaks me apart emotionally

and breaks me open spiritually

leaves me wounded

and heals me