02/03/2008 Entry: "soap box extravaganza"

so i was driving down the freeway today and there was a sign that caught my eye...it said "help stop human trafficking in your town"...and I started thinking.....i know i don't live in the best town in the world, but when you start thinking about all the crap that goes on in your own town...it's so weird to think about...like even right now, at 1:45 am there is a whole other world going on outside my safe, comfortable little neighborhood...it's just so weird how good and evil coexist. it's so crazy how powerful evil is...sure love is just as powerful, but i guess it's that evil destroys everything in its path...so it seems more powerful at times....check this out though..i looked this up online and it said 17,000 girls are kidnapped and forced to be sex slaves here in our great America every year...(www.humantrafficking.org)

gosh...it makes me so angry...more like furious when i think of innocent children suffering...ah! it actually makes me feel like i want to go buy a tank and blow up all the bad guys...man, i'd love to do that in sudan...gosh...i know, i know...i'm sure there are many who will read that and be disappointed i wasn't the "good little christian" they thought i was and will wonder why we called our record "love"...:) well i'm all full of love, but when it comes to INNOCENT people suffering at the hands of perverse, wicked people...i have no tolerance...yes, i know...i only stated the obvious...a problem..i don't know how to fix it ...i will read more..

feel free to post anything u like, your true thots :) i'm going to bed. im sleepy :)

sara delight*

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wow...thank you all for your comments and thoughts...like i've said a million times. i really love reading what you have to say! u all are very cool! seriously...thank you for posting and adding to this blog...it really makes it worth while

LOVE.
SARA DELIGHT

Posted by SARA DELIGHT @ 02/06/2008 06:18 PM CST

yea i watched the beginning of a show on tv on human trafficing and it made me sick i turned the channel..i couldnt even watch it..it was that bad! i couldnt imagine how all them go thru it day after day...i cant even watch it on tv! grrr makes me angry too! and the system just treats it like no big deal and often the women get treated like it was consentual or like they were the bad ones makes me sick to my stomach!!!

there are a lot of perverted ppl out there! some guys will do anything to satisfy their want for sex! makes me soo mad!!

Posted by Amanda Kate @ 02/06/2008 05:47 AM CST

that's so disgusting. it really upsets me as well. There was a movie about that on lifetime once and it was realy eye opening. and it's sad because that whole issue is so taboo people don't want to tlak about it or raise awareness about it and i think there is SOOO much that can be done and of course, since it involves others, no one wants to do anything. i wish i could try to do my fair share but im just not sure what i, as one person, especially being only 16, can do to help other than just tell my friends and pray for the people involved in that horrible industry.

i don't think i will ever understand Satan... i really don't. he is so uncaring and unjust and just, cruel and horrific. how can anyone allow this to happen? Thinking about the world makes me want to cry and it makes me so glad that i have Jesus and makes me want to tell other people about His love even more. Maybe that was what God was trying to do by allowing Satan to rule that world. Maybe He was trying to show us how wonderful He is and teach us to share joy with others. i think that evil needs to coexist with good to put everything in context, and to help us appreciate and really strive for good.

just a side note, could you guys pray for my friend? i don't want to give out her name but she's having a really hard time with life and peer pressure and making wise choices. i've tried giving her advice but she isn't listening and is realllllly confused right now. thanks=].

all your comments and sara, your blogs, always make me think. thanks for keeping my brain engaged.

Posted by leanna @ 02/03/2008 05:01 PM CST

Yeah. Human trafficking is one of those things we think we only see in other places around the world. Then we'll turn on the super bowl tonight and see all the sex-saturated commercials and stuff that goes along with a huge media event like this and it's all painted in such an attractive light. It's all seen as fun and games. But what about the stories of those folks that get sex trafficked in the states? Didn't they see it coming? How does it happen? Check out this video of Shelley Lubben if you get a chance:

Shelley talks about her life in the sex industry

She's an ex prostitute/stripper/porn star. She got sex-trafficked to Mexico and had to escape - she's lucky to be alive. (Yeah, the sex industry is real glamorous.) I'm hoping and praying that the truth will set us free in this country. We are so enamoured by the way the culture advertises sexuality that we aren't realizing that what we're swallowing is poison. The more we consume, the more it drives the production of it - and the dangerous (and deadly) cycle continues.

It's crazy to think that Americans will agree that sex trafficking in other countries is wrong, but then we have basically turned a blind eye to porn and its effects here at home on women, children, men, families, etc. We tolerate a more glamourous version of sex slavery/trafficking. We've all been affected by it in some way. The influence is so broad. The dangerous reality is that because of the way 'the product' is advertised to us, we have people willingly going into something that eventually makes them a slave. How many people into porn and the sex industry can walk away from it if they want to?

Posted by Roger @ 02/03/2008 03:57 PM CST

it's sometimes alright to state your true feelings but I totally agree it's so wrong all the pervs in the world :(

Posted by Phoenicia @ 02/03/2008 03:34 PM CST

Yup, its hard to love for sure. You know what is awesome though, in a town in Texas someone had a human trafficking sticker, not to say that texans aren't well informed, BUT the whole issue is getting known throughout the country and that can be the start of a change:)

God's been burning my heart for this whole thing,while I was in Asia. So I dunno, even though I went into a bar in Thailand and saw women dancing with numbers on their bodies and saw men pick them out of the crowd to take away, I still know there is hope somehow. I think my heart is to let the church see the need, and to bring them back to the gospels where the God they served hung out with prostitutes. Just imagine if everyone got behind this in a real way how much things could change.

So Sara believe or not i'm getting on a plane again today to go back to ireland again for a 3 week vacation. Sooo, hopefully we can connect sometime soon:)

Peace
Kirsty

Posted by Kirsty @ 02/03/2008 11:20 AM CST

well it's 4am and since i don't sleep EVER, i'll post my thoughts. sorry if they don't make sense. i am sleepy too. :o)

um. just because you want to go blow up bad guys doesn't make you a bad little christian. your rage against evil comes from being filled with love. light and dark can't co-exist, right? so if you see something evil, of course you want to destroy it!

there's lots of innocent people in the world who have to suffer all kinds of things. and if it doesn't make a person enraged to know that, then their heart is cold. and yours isn't. yours is very much alive and aware and full of love or you wouldn't be so furious and writing a blog about it. lots of people just turn their heads the other way. or say "all i can do is pray". that one gets to me the most, i think. because i think if people truly love other people, there is always something they can do beyond praying. even if it's teeny tiny.

this stuff makes me horribly angry too. evilness. cruelty. hurting another living, breathing, feeling person, in any context, like it's nothing. i don't understand it. and i don't understand why more people aren't mad! or why more people don't try and DO something. i don't understand how people can even sleep at night when they know that other people are suffering for whatever reason.

lol. but maybe that's because i'm the kid that can't ever sleep.

love sure doesn't seem as powerful as the evil. because there isn't enough of it. and there should be. i really don't understand that.

you should post more when you read more. thanks for keeping up with this journal, buddy. it's refreshing to see someone talking about things that really matter.
hugs. xoxo

Posted by lindz @ 02/03/2008 04:10 AM CST