Earthquakes and Hurricans

Do you ever feel like your life is just full of chaos sometimes?
      I find it rather surprising that the week before I leave, my hometown suffers from a 5.9 Magnitude Earthquake and Category 2/3 Hurricane named Irene! It really put more things into perspective. I'll be leaving behind a life that will go on without me. A life that could be filled with disaster (although I hope not!). My family, friends and church are all being left behind possibly to some natural disaster (and here is to hoping that there will never be a man made one!). I suppose what it boils down to is the true calling.
      Many have asked me, "Why do this?" and I am sure I have talked about this before. Why leave my hometown to live in a kind-of impoverished lifestyle where I will be making no money and can't guarantee that I'll be well taken care of? I've had people talk to me as if I am totally giving up my life and walking straight into perpetual future suicide! I am okay with that though. In my heart, I know what I NEED to do, and sometimes, what someone NEEDS to do is not always easy to do, heck, sometimes what NEEDS to be done is something people just DON'T WANT TO DO!
     Here is the reality:
          In a perfect world:
                    We wouldn't need missionaries
                    We wouldn't need militaries
                    And we wouldn't need therapies
     Does that makes sense? In a perfect world there would be no pain, no need to reach out and help people who fall by the wayside and are smashed in by the world around them (whatever does the smashing), and there would be no need to spill blood (and honestly, WE DON'T NEED TO IN THE FIRST PLACE! There are better ways to deal with things then bloodshed). The problem is this world isn't perfect at all. God knows this, and we as His people, His creation, His ambassadors of this world need to realize that the world isn't going to be perfect. God knows the world has problems, problems that He meant us to sort out. People need to stop looking up, people need to take their heads out of the sand and realize what is going on around them. This world does not belong to us, it belongs to God, and look what we as human kind have done to it!
       So why do this? There was a saying at the end of one of my favorite movies, The Boondock Saints, that made a lot of sense. The Saint's Father sat them down in a room and asked them, "Do you possess the constitution, the depth of faith, to go as far as is needed?" This isn't to say I'm going to live out my faith like the Saints did, I'm not about to go out and buy weapons and "kill all that is evil so that the good may flourish." No, no... But what I will not do is stand by and see a world crumbling around me and do nothing about it. I live here too. You live here. We all live here and what exactly do we need to do to make this world better for us, and better for Him?