So this
month, I have been living it up in Thailand. I have been able to see
and experience some incredible things…

like
a whole new culture
 
 

 

and
riding elephants

 
 

and
climbing waterfalls
 
 
 
 

and
enjoying the beauty of God’s creation
 
 
 
 
 

and
waking up to an incredible view
 
 

and I’ve
even worked a little bit 🙂
 
 
 
 

but the
best part of this month has been spending time with these girls.
 
 
 
 

These
are the girls of Remember Nhu. They are sweet and funny and loving
and absolutely beautiful daughters of God. They are just like any
other girls you might meet in America–they have homework and chores
and worry about their hair and boys. But their life hasn’t always
been like this. Remember Nhu is an organization that is dedicated to
preventing child sex trafficking. They rescue girls who are at risk
of being sold into sex slavery and offer them a precious gift–a new home and
family and freedom.

So for
the first time in their lives, these girls have three meals a day
every day-and can even have seconds and thirds if they want.
 
For
the first time in their lives, they have their own bed and clean
clothes that fit and shoes.
 
They can play and laugh and run around
and just be kids.
 
They don’t have to worry that today might be their
last day of freedom.
 
They are safe.
 

They are loved.

 
 

 

It’s
halfway through this trip, and sometimes all I want is to be back
home in a big comfy bed and to be able to eat something besides rice
for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Sometimes it’s easy to forget why
I chose to give up my comfortable life in America to wear the same clothes day after day and take freezing cold bucket showers and live out of a
backpack for a year.

And then
I see this.

 
 
 
 
 

And I
remember why I chose to take this journey.