• NightLight

    NightLight International.

    Check out this great site/organization, rescuing women from exploitation in the brothels and bars of Thailand and giving them skills and industry to maintain a life of freedom.  Some of the jewelry is a little expensive, but how much should freedom cost?

    “The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death a light has dawned.” Isaiah 9:2

    NightLight is an international organization committed to addressing the complex issues surrounding trafficking and prostitution by catalyzing individual and community transformation. NightLight’s vision is to offer intervention to sexually exploited women and children, to enable them to discover their dignity, and to provide a program of holistic transformation, empowering them to live and work in their community.

    NightLight’s mission is to build relationships and provide hope, intervention, rescue and assistance to women and children exploited in the sex industry by offering alternative employment, vocational opportunities, life-skills training and physical, emotional and spiritual development to women seeking freedom. NightLight builds support networks internationally to intervene and assist women, men and children whose lives are negatively impacted by the sex industry.

    In Bangkok, Nightlight operates as a business (NightLight Design, Co. Ltd) and a non-profit (NightLight Foundation). In the United States, NightLight operates as a 501c3 with branches in Los Angeles and Atlanta.

  • Lyrics: “Love, Where Is Your Fire?” – Brooke Fraser

    Love, where is your fire? I’ve been sitting here smoking away
    Making signals with sticks and odd ends and bits, still there’s no sign of a flame
    Imposters have been passing, offering a good-feeling glow
    But I’m holding out for what you are about – an inferno that burns to the bone
    Some urge me to be temperate, lukewarm will never do

    [CHORUS]
    ‘Cause I, I wanna (know I’ll) blaze with you
    So I’m holding my heart out to you
    Holding my heart out

    So I stand, handing out torches
    speaking words that are lamps to their feet
    ‘Til the time when you come an I’m whole and we are one and the fire in me is complete
    Some tell me to be moderate but lukewarm will never do

    [CHORUS]

    [BRIDGE]
    Then a doubt comes to lie at the back of my mind
    That I’ll offer you me and you’ll politely decline (politely decline)
    So I hasten to mute it, I’ll shout and rebuke it – “away!”

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    I’ve listened to this song many times, but this morning it just spoke truth to my heart. I love the ways God chooses to illuminate.

  • Quote: Mother Teresa

    I love Mother Teresa quotes.  She has had some great ones over her life.  One of my favorites is:

    I know that God said He’d never give me more than I can handle.  I just wish He didn’t trust me so much.”

    I just found this one in my perusings of the blog for Love146, a child trafficking abolitionist project : love146.org (you should check it out, seriously…like, now)

    I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.

    The fear of pain and exposure when loving someone is often a deterrent to continue in loving them.  But this is so true, that you go through the pain and find on the other side the love to cover up the memory of that pain and to continue on.  I mean, what could be a greater representation of God’s love than that?

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