"Taken"

Last night, after my time at Starbucks, I came home and met MyLove. We got dressed up and went on our date to Thai Cottage for some awesome curry beef and shrimp and scallop skewers. We then headed to Target for a pint of ice cream and went to see the movie "Taken."

What an intense movie it is! MyLove and I were gripped the entire movie. It is a despairing premise but you leave the theatre feeling like it ended well. Yet, MyLove and I were impacted by the injustice and reality of the underground sex slave industry. We had seen a special on this a while back on PBS and were so impacted. When we came home, we prayed that if the Lord wanted to use us somehow, that He would. It is all so overwhelming, to think that we could actually have some kind of impact in this large, dark world, but we do know that we can pray. Our hearts were also brought to prayer after seeing the movie "Blood Diamond" and the cruelty of forcing children to become soldiers.

These issue lay so heavily on my heart, and MyLove's heart. Again, it is overwhelming because we have such a strong desire to do something. But, where do you start? How do you get the ball rolling? What to do first?

Before we were married, one of the biggest aspects that drew us together was our desire to one day live somewhere internationaly and share the Love of Christ. Well, we continue to pray for this and just wait on the Lord. It's all so unsure. We know we have this desire, but we don't want to jump the gun and take things into our own hands without letting the Lord lead. We do not want to be a mission field casualty - one who goes in too quickly and gets burnt out and never wants to do it again, or worse, ruin our testimony and lead others away from Christ.

All this to say, when we hear of these things: sex slavery, children soldiers, the children sex trade (running rampant especially since the tsunami in December of 2004), we ask the Lord what He wants us to do. Maybe these are the venues He will want us to be a part of to rescue those who are helpless, give a voice to the voiceless, shelter and care for the motherless/fatherless.

However the Lord leads, we know this. We can pray our hearts out! And that is what we'll do!