A Call to Action

Last night I watched the documentary "Branded", a new documentary by a guy from The Element. It exposes the sex trafficking business in the Phoenix area, mostly girls under the age of 18.

I wept through the entire thing.

I couldn't help but think the whole time about how blessed my sisters and I were to be born into the life that we were. And about how these girls live just miles from me, with absolutely no hope. About how it's really easy for me to leave my nice apartment, wearing nice clothes, and go sing nice songs proclaiming Truth, hope, life, and still walk away many times unchanged and even unmotivated to really live out the Gospel. The reason Jesus came: "To preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoner."

I shouldn't speak for anyone else who viewed the film, but I have to say that I left with strong conviction last night that if I do nothing...if I walk away unchanged and unmoved, than I am nothing but an "educated, self-inflated Pharisee".

So what's the next step? I'm still figuring that out. But I do know that I will do something. If that means giving money , donating my time, finding ways to create awareness about injustice in my own backyard, I'll do it. I know I don't blog very often, but I'm writing so that you, few readers, will hold me accountable. I don't want to forget and continue to live out my life in a fabricated, blissful ignorance.

"The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to release the oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor."