My Talk with the Afgan Man

You know it is alway surprising how things work out. The other day I was working in my office and I recieved a phone call informing me that our copier company was on its way. Now normally this in not a big deal but I hadnt place a service call and I was quite upset that someone had placed the call without my knowledge. Anyways the service man never showed up and I went home not thinking two things about it.
Well the next morning, guess who showed up? Yep the service man. He was short, with dark hair, dark tanned skinned very middleastern looking individual. Of course I was curious. So upstairs we went to the copier room, oh by the way I was the one who placed the service call....
As usual I decided to spark up conversation by asking where he was from. Turns out he was from Afghanstan. Wow, well being in the Navy and the military I was then very curious to see how he felt about life there and what we were doing.
I should have prepared myself for a long, long conversation but instead I dealt the question, "So what do you think of the US in your country?" Well, it opened a can of worms that I am still reeling from. However, I am not going to dwell in this blog about that but instead I am going to state what I saw.
For the first time ever I heard a nation that is lost. They have such a one sided view point of alot of things but it is not their culture, it is their religion. I found myself admiring this barely english speaking man not because he had been a through alot but because he was so committed to his faith.
I thought about this later on and simply thought that we, Americans, do not get it. We have finally become that nation that is more concerned about immediate satisfication that we dont care about anything else. It is generally sad to me that we are know as the melting pot of the world and yet we know nothing of our forefathers.
Take a minute today and think how fast you read this blog or how fast you needed to get to work... Or why did it take so long to get your coffee this morning..... I propose that we all need to take sometime and slow down and remember the God that created us.....