Funny how our best selves typically surface when we aren’t trying so hard to make ourselves the “best.
Emerging singer-songwriter Kyle Sherman can certainly validate. Take, for instance, that moment this past summer, when he unexpectedly had his world shaken during a mission trip to Africa.
Leading up to our trip to Zambia, I felt nervous. I found myself thinking, ‘Can I do this? What if the kids don’t like me? Can we stand being that far away from our own two kids and for that long?’” Kyle recalls. “We didn’t have any connection to these children before the trip outside of being told I would have ten boys and Stacie would have ten girls. Day one we really just spent time getting to know a bit about the kids and sharing a little about ourselves. The first big step for us came at the beginning of day two. The buses rolled up and we could see our kids running for us yelling, Uncle Kyle!, Auntie Stacie!. I think it was then that we knew, we were forever connected to these children.