We are all just one phone call from our knees.
{on phone call outreach to prostitutes}
Anyone dreads the tragic phone call heralding information that will change life drastically; a fatal car accident, an illness, something lost, the answer ‘no,’ information that painfully altars reality as you once knew it.
But this time, even as she picks up the phone to reluctantly negotiate yet another business deal, there is an unfamiliar stranger’s voice on the other end. It’s a woman’s voice, filled with concern and another foreign sound, long forgotten in this line of work. There is frustration from the sound of its unfamiliarity but something penetrates her heart even through the distanced phone line until she remembers the sound’s kindness: its love.
Being the stranger on the other line can be incredibly intimidating and can come with a long grocery list of excuses as to why to not dial in. But after engaging only a few girls, you remember the familiar routine of calling your own girlfriends and the innate gene within all females to chat on the phone. These are ladies are not so different from you or your group of BFFs. Circumstances and misleading counsel from the wrong people have reduced them to this position. Many responses might be short, but the sheer fact that someone, even a complete stranger, is looking out for them, might altar the path of her night. Others are overwhelmingly thankful and could talk your ear off about their children, their concerns, the past, and their hopes for the near future. Others are severely defensive, and fire off a round of expletives, but a single attempt could be just what she needs to begin breaching the impossible walls she has constructed around her heart.
The providers advertised on online personal ads range from young 19-year olds to 45 year old mothers of three. All of them deserve to know that God has not forgotten them and their life is valuable. There is still opportunity for their dreams, for provision for their families, and self respect. A single phone conversation might not be a revolutionary extreme life makeover on the spot, but that initial contact filled with a voice of love and concern may be the seed of life planted in that girl’s path to change her direction of eternity forever.
