This week! ahh what can I say…? It has been interesting that is for sure. So fun fact about me… I HATE being alone like seriously I think it is one of my greatest fears in life. This week the Lord has called me to embrace this, and deal with this fear head on. For a little over a week I am all alone at home while my family is out of the country in Mexico on vacation/mission trip. The first night I had my best friend spend the night, so I was good .We had fun watching movies, talking about life, the Lord, and muching on cookie dough .; ) She had to leave REALLY early to go w/ her family to utah or something, so after like 3:30 in the moring I was alone. I freaked out! Seriously, I didn't sleep at all. After that first night though I really was ok, the Lord gave me a peace and reminded me He is always with me! I began to enjoy the unusual quiet. (With 7 people in my family my house is never quiet! )
So like I mentioned in a previous post, I stayed back home because I got called in to work a ton of hours at work which has been good becuse I haven't had too much time to think about being home all alone and missing my family. I am working a show called Nacs which is a food and beverage show. Pretty much the things you would find at a gas staion… there here! For example: red bull, budweiser, mars bars, gum, different candy brands they are ALL here! So beacuse I'm working the convention I also get a lot of free stuff which has been fun. I've gotten candy, ice cream, redbull, beef jerky, and more!! ; )
What is interesting about this week and this show though, is the Lord reminded me of something He pointed out a passion of mine, something that makes me tick, somthing that makes me so upset and so angry…what is it??? PORN and SEX Trafficking, women and girls who are taken advantage of and who are being exploited. It started the first day of the show. Every day this week I have to walk past this little area where there is porn just right there for people to take/buy. There is also little cards scattered on the side walk with porn on it. Every time I walk past it I start praying. I pray for these girls who are involved in this industry and for the people who are in bondage to porn and over all for this industry to be brought down to where there is no more need for it, because ultimately it is a heart and sin problem so the only way for it to stop is for the need for it to end. Also during the show I happened to be on the show floor one day, and I saw all these girls (who could be my age) in little dresses or bikinis walking around and dancing trying to get people to come to their booth and buy things. I felt overcome with emotion:anger, sadness, and compassion all at the same time. I walked out and as soon as I was alone I began crying, thinking about these girls. Their whole job is to be be looked over and stared at. Their job depends on their apperance. I jsut thought to myself…When they go home what do they think of themselves?
What do their families think of them? How do their guys or their "boyfriends" treat them? They probably don't know what it is like for someone to truly love them and value them. They don't know the love of the Father!
It was a good reminder of what the Lord has called me personally, and us as a body of believers to do: give LIFE! Give life to who? …everyone! To those who are hurt,broken, those who never recieved real pure love, those who don't know their value in Christ and the love of their Abba Father and Daddy.
Isaiah 61: 1-3
The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon Me,
Because the LORD has anointed Me
To preach good tidings to the poor;
He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted,
To proclaim liberty to the captives,
And the opening of the prison to those who are bound;
2 To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD,
And the day of vengeance of our God;
To comfort all who mourn,
3 To console those who mourn in Zion,
To give them beauty for ashes,
The oil of joy for mourning,
The garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness;
That they may be called trees of righteousness,
The planting of the LORD, that He may be glorified
