Tweet Life slowed down for half a second after the wedding. As I am slowly getting into a routine, life has slowly started to pick up the pace. Those closest to me would have expected nothing less, I am always busy. And in fact, while to some people my schedule would sound like a nightmare, it is what I love. I have not picked back up to pre-wedding pace and I do not intend to ever get that busy! I love being able to go home after work, cook dinner, and spend the evening with my husband. Thus, to maintain some semblance of balance, I am working hard at streamlining…
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Make $32,000 a Week
Tweet Intrigued? Anxious to earn some extra cash? According to a recent study released by the Urban Institute entitled “The Hustle: Economics of the Underground Sex Industry” all you need to do is move to Atlanta and start selling women for sex. Because $32,000 a week was the average income of a pimp in Atlanta from 2005-2011. Consider this, “Atlanta’s underground commercial sex economy in 2007 was nearly 2.5 times bigger than the 2013 payroll of the Atlanta Falcons.” Here is the rest of the infographic- The study was based on interviews with convicted pimps and the most comprehensive study done on this black market industry. The study…
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Heartbreak, Hope, and an Opportunity
Tweet In the last month, some really exciting things have started to fall into place. A good friend and I are working really hard at trying to put together a human trafficking task force and it looks like it might actually happen. Divine appointments have been made, people are getting on board and I am on cloud nine. This is what I want to do with my life. This is my Holy Discontent. However, it is also devastatingly heartbreaking. The more I read, the more I research, the more I talk about it, the more my heart breaks. All I want to do is stop every person I see…
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Remember This Number
Tweet Today is Valentine’s Day. And whether you celebrate it or loathe it, it is hard to get away from the pictures of love, the chocolate, and red hearts decorating stores and TV ads. So today, whether you love Valentine’s Day or realize the commercialism of the holiday and protest it, remember one number. 27 million. Research estimates there are 27 million slaves around the world today, a vast number of these being women and children exploited for a perverse form of “love.” As we celebrate love with cards and candy hearts, many others are being brutally abused, raped, and used. And while it may not…
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Freedom Reigns
Tweet Freedom reigns in this place, showers of Mercy and Grace. Falling on every face, there is freedom. -Jesus Culture Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. –2 Corinthians 3:17 This song has been running through my mind all week. We sang it Sunday in church and as I have been preparing for Myanmar this week, I cannot stop thinking about the first line in the chorus freedom reigns in this place. We live in a world where freedom does not reign in many places. In Myanmar, thousands are stuck in literal bondage, enslaved to a master who demands…
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The Start of a Dream
Tweet I have a dream. A really big dream. One of those dreams most people would laugh off as “impossible.” Sometimes when I think about it I feel like a kid again-you know, back when you thought anything was possible. I forget sometimes I am an adult and am supposed to have practical, pay-the-bills type of dreams. I wonder if the dream is even possible or if I will ever find people willing to invest in the vision. I wonder often why God choose this issue to break my heart. Why this burden to bear? Lately though, I have decided to throw caution to the wind and start pursuing my dream. I have not quit…
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Recap: The Justice Conference
Tweet Mind-blown. Humbled. Energized. Motivated. Broken. Those are just a few of the words that scratch the surface of the incredible two days I spent at the Justice Conference. Next year, I will be dragging my friends to it, even if I have to fund their way because I believe this conference is too important and too powerful to miss. After sitting for two days, listening to speaker after speaker share their heart for justice and the broken condition of our world, I cannot sit still. Granted, I have never really sat still, but this was the kick in the pants I needed to take the final plunge into the…
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What Is Justice?
Tweet What is Justice? from The Justice Conference on Vimeo. This is what I am up to for the next few days. I head out tomorrow for a long weekend in Portland to attend The Justice Conference. For more information, head over here. Otherwise, wait for the blog post when I return!
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Feed My Starving Children
Tweet You know you have found a soul sister when your idea of something fun to do on a Friday night is dump food into bags for two hours. But that is exactly what my friend Leah and I did for two hours last Friday night. Amid laughter, music, and lots of chatting, I realized that this was exactly what my soul needed. A break from the media and life to focus on a project way bigger than myself and with an organization I have a very personal connection to. Rewind a few months. Leah asked me if I wanted to go to a packing party for this organization…
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Spend and Satisfy
Tweet And if you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppressed, then your light will rise in the darkness, and your night will become like the noonday. Isaiah 58:10 Darkness cannot overtake light. Only light can overtake darkness. Think about it. When you walk into a dark room, you turn on a light and the light rids the room of darkness. The only way for the darkness to return is to remove the light-it cannot automatically return. We are living in a dark world. Poverty. Injustice. Death. Trafficking. The numbers are overwhelming. The statistics numbing. The stories heartbreaking. And in the midst of…