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Sunday, February 27, 2005

I think this is something I need to do

I have always been one of those people who has wanted to be a little bit of everything when I grow up, a doctor, a police officer, a politician, and most recently a fashion designer, which I am making happen......But one thing was always a constant: I wanted a career when I can help people in some way and possible lead them towards a Christian lifestyle. Whether it was by helping refugees in a foreign country by providing aid and religious options, or by teaching someone that you can be just as beautiful dressed modestly and that its what's on the inside that counts...Spirituality not sexuality. Either way I was going to help people and witness to God.

I know I may get a bit of crap for this, but whether God put it on my heart, or it is just my true desire, about 4 years ago I felt the call to go into the missions field, at the time I felt the army was the direction for this to go...Go to foreign lands as a medic and help the dying by giving them hope. But when that ended, I stood doubting if this was the path I was to take. I fully believe that God has a purpose for each person. He has a reason for creating us the way he did ( more of that in my free will post coming up). We have the talents and gifts we do to carry out a certain aspect of his work. I have been told 50 million paths to take by a hundred people, but most aren't gonna happen anytime soon, such as marriage or college, so I wonder where to even begin, Until I actually started watching the news from other places and thinking about it.

I have always wanted to help people in situations that they can't get out of. People who think they have no choice other than to die, the bottom of the barrel sort. I was thinking of maybe starting an small organization to build houses for people in poor places that have been devastated by disasters, like Mexico where if someone loses their shack, they are on the street. I actually know a few businesses locally that throw out scrap items that could be used to build these houses, but have no one to build them, so out the window went that plan also. Then one day a few months ago, while in the Doctors office, I read an article that really spoke to me. It was about Women sold into prostitution and sex slavery against their will. I had talked to one of my friends a few months earlier about helping dealers and criminals get off the streets, but I never thought about it. These stories made me cry. These women went through terrible ordeals and honestly couldn't get any help. Some are kidnapped and sold into sex slavery in different countries, some are lured to their destination thinking they are getting a god job, then find out upon arrival they will be used as prostitutes, one woman was sold into the lifestyle at age 9, had her first child at 13, and now has several incurable STD's because of something that was forced upon her. If these women go for help, they are normally turned away. If they have children and they go to the police or many organizations, they will be prosecuted and if they have children, they will be taken away. There are women's shelters for abuse victims, but in many places, they are so full, they refuse prostitutes. If they do manage to find someone to help them, they are treated as substandard people, they have no worth. So after a lot of thought, I think the one thing that is really in need is a place for these women to go. There are a few organizations out there, but not many, and although they do provide counseling, they can't provide what God can, No amount of therapy can truly make them feel renewed. I think these women need a place where they can go to be safe, to find jobs and housing to get back on their feet, and where they not only get their therapy from a psychologist, but from women who have been through what they have and found the comfort they seek in God. Let them know that they can start over and be clean, their sins are forgivable, and that there is always hope.