Love On the Line

Talk about God speaking... I was watching an episode of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition early today about a single mother raising eight children. After she had the first child, her husband became physically and emotionally abusive. I've always had a huge heart for this kind of thing because it's somethig that I've seen affect a few close friends. She managed to escape and take her children with her to a shelter called House of Ruth. I start thinking about shelters and what I've heard of them... They're a place to be, and it's good to be able to escape, but they're not ideal. So, all the sudden, the idea occurs to me that I should open a house for battered women and children. Then I think about the fact that I KNOW there aren't enough homes for people who have escaped sex and human trafficking. It's one of the biggest problems in the solution to ending the trafficking; there's no where to really put the people since they've been separated from everything familiar. My mind starts running and I decide that I'm going to open one house up for each. Just to start out... One house for mom's and children who can make it out, one house for the courageous people who have come out of modern day slavery. Then I hear the words "love on the line" -- definitely not me-- followed by the thought that this should be a non-profit organization. Hello, God! I mean, if I had never heard You before in my entire life, I definitely did then.
Needless to say, that's something I want in my future. No, it's not easy to just sprout a foundation or build houses or fund and sponsor survivors... But EVERYTHING is possible with God. We know this. If He wants it to happen, you'd better believe that, in most cases, it will. If YOU are willing to listen and be faithful, He will follow through and work through you to get his plans done.
It makes me smile to think about doing this; to think about the lives that will be changed. I'm extremely excited. I realize it's not going to happen right now and that it's all in God's time, but this is something I hope never leaves my heart and I really do hope that I'm pushed on this no matter what kind of challenges it brings me.


"You were made for greatness". Words to inspire a lifetime. Thanks Raquel (: