The known world

It's so hard to move from your childhood reality, from the world as it presented itself to you when you were young. Of course there's always a push upward, but, generally speaking, middle class people stick with middle class people in middle class suburbs, upper class with upper class, and lower class with lower class. Of, even if we are able to make their way up, it's always a little otherworldly there.

The middle class may look different here, but their level of prosperity is familiar to me - having all they need and more, but unable to live in luxury. My sort of people. I admire those missionaries who can go up or down - I would find this very hard, though I do dream of discipling women from all spheres...