BRAD CLARK

 

Bradley is my name...which means a broad meadow...?
In my youth, it was not I who had been seeking God, but God who had been seeking me. I had made myself the center of my own existence and had my back turned to God and his children...

A deliberate yearning for death yielded death, but not my own--not yet.

Instantly I knew to never seek death again--death will find me. I choose instead to seek all that made death a fulfillment.  I sought understanding and exposed death as a most creative force. Many spiritual values of true Life were revealed to me through meditation on the matters of death.

I refuse to be divorced from my sorrow of the dead. I seek divine healing in all other wounds and the Lord allows me to forgive the sources of my afflictions: but I see duty in keeping this wound open--I cherish this affliction as it brought me Life. It affords me enduring comfort in the pains and trials of a Christian walk. It has burnt courage and contentedness, within in this sick world, upon my heart and given me a sincere willingness to pursue Him above all; if He calls me to crawl through fire, so be it.

George Muller and George McGovern respectively scratch the surface of my calling to Haiti: "A servant of God has but one master. It ill becomes the servant to seek to be rich, and great, and honored in that world where his Lord was poor, and mean, and despised." I expect to witness and learn from the (perceived) absent barriers of Love in Haiti. Ultimately, "I seek to call America home to those principles that gave us birth."

-BTC