The Great Reset. That’s how I would put a bow on two weeks in Kenya.
I turned my phone off. Email off. Not once checked either. What that does is simple—it brings everything in front of you back into focus. My wife and our four kids were there with me, and for the first time in a long time, nothing competed with that. Not work. Not noise. Just what was right in front of us.
Working alongside Hope for Kenya, we were engulfed by the kids at the Joy School, and in the communities surrounding it – a whole new society I truly had not thought that deeply about. Children whose conditions were hard to reconcile—homes without basic comforts, we sat on rocks to talk. And in those moments, there was no distance between “us” and “them,” only a shared humanity.
You think you understand gratitude—until you see life where basic needs aren’t guaranteed. Seeing it firsthand—the lack of basic things like food, clothing, a place to sit—it gives you a perspective you don’t get any other way. Some of the saddest things I had ever seen, but very real.
We talk about America being the 1%. The reality is—we are. And standing there, the feelings of gratefulness for how blessed we are in our country, in our community, in our circle, overcame me the whole time. Not in a loud or performative way. Just a quiet understanding that seeing it firsthand changes what matters—and what should.
The Great Reset wasn’t about doing good to feel good. It proved to be more about seeing clearly when you remove the noise and allow perspective back in.
“For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?” — Mark 8:36
That question has stayed with me. Because once you see it, you can’t unsee it.