I saw the breaking news story today about the three women who had been kidnapped and held for ten years. WOW, seriously TEN YEARS! That just boggles the mind to think of the horrors they must have endured within that ten year span. I am overjoyed to hear of their rescue and freedom and mortified at the same time that within our population monsters really do exist among us.
Have you ever been to a Walmart? I'm sure you have. Have you ever looked at all of the faces of the missing people that they have posted on that bulletin board in front of the checkout area? I really is sobering to think that darkness is real in our lives. Sure we can ignore it, but that doesn't mean that it's gone. Like a kid who pulls the blankets up over their eyes we can close our eyes to the horrors and pretend they don't exist but unlike the monsters under the bed and in the closet these monsters are very real!
Another form of darkness in our world, similar to this horrible experiences of these three women is the plight of human trafficking in our world today. It's kidnapping on an epic scale. It's deplorable to even think that there is a market for humans. That one can even put a price on another human being. It's the modern day form of slavery. One can imagine what these three women experienced when in the hands of this monster...just imagine being bought and sold a number of times on top of these horrors. I'm not trivializing what this breaking story today has detailed but knowing that there are other women out there in similar circumstances even in our own country really churns my stomach.
Freedom was available today for these kidnapped women and I am so joyful for their freedom and I pray for their healing and the help they will need for years to come. Please lift them up in your prayers today as well as those on Walmart walls around the country and for victims in the sex trafficking slave market the plagues our world still today.
Additional links to help stop human trafficking in our world:
No comments:
Post a Comment