Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Let's Continue This Conversation

Today was one of those days that you realize how sick humans are, how much help we need...how disturbed this planet has become...

There is a story that must be told...a real story of a real life.

A friend of mine (I believe I can now call him friend, because I believe so much in what he and his organization is doing) sat down with me today and told me this story that left me emotionally shocked and spiritually challenged...

Rob knew there were horrors untold taking place everyday in Thailand, and it was time to take action...in fact 2 children are sexually trafficked every 2 minutes...posing as a predator he and a colleague walked into a brothel aimed at trafficking children. As he stood in a row, next to his enemies...men, inspecting what was not theirs, stealing innocence for pleasure...Rob peered through a pain glass window at 7-9 year old girls as their lifeless and dead eyes peered through the cartoons playing on a shoddy TV.

All dressed in red dresses, each was ripped of their dignity, nameless...only numbered....One girl, new maybe, with pain filled eyes, scanned the men though the glass and met Rob for a moment...number 146...this one girl, one life, one more innocence lost...what would happen to her that night...where is she today...number 146...what can we do to save her, who will take on this misison...number 146...who will tell her story.

Rob and so many others have given their lives to seeing children freed from slavery...freed from a life of torment. JFCI is teaching children to play again, dream again...restoring lives who will give THEIR voice to stop this evil.

Let us tell the 146 story. May she inspire us to move to action...may her story move you, rouse you, motivate you to speak.

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