So like God.

Parental Caveat....this is not a nice post.

Last Friday I was up at the hospital interpreting and flipping through a Time magazine. An article there described the ramped up hunt for girls to supply the expected need in brothels in South Africa during the World Cup. Really? As in NO. And OH NO. It blighted my morning. Later, when I walked toward my car I saw that I had gotten two texts. One from my son, Jay who asked me to see a photo of two boys picking through trash in a dump in Bangalore. He knew we had visited there a while back. The other text was from a friend who had just watched a women be honored for her effort in exposing the horrors of the sex trade.

It is difficult to reconcile the safe, clean, friendly way I live in Norfolk to the realities of the rest of the planet. Girls sold to pay a debt. Children foraging for food in a dump. It seems monstrous. It is monstrous. And then God let me hear Him. It sounded something like this:

The long term way for children to be permanently rescued from brothels and hunger is to shift the thinking of their villages and their society. If they can be seen as valuable people who have a right to be equipped to provide for their own needs, then they will not be neglected or sold. 6 years ago a small group of us built a school. This building now educates over 500 children who would have been sold, and who have certainly known hunger. Somehow God allowed us to be invited into the shifting of a entire village.

God is letting us be the point of the spear that is a weapon He is using to undo the dark deeds of child trafficking. Going to India this summer is necessary if we are going to be witnesses of transformation. And speaking of a Good King to these amazing students is a source of Joy!