Monday, November 22, 2010

The Adventure Begins...

No one expects....Chubby Spy.

That's right.  Totally unexpected.  Who would think that a middle aged mother of grown kids would develop a passion and reinvent herself as an advocate for people who have been Trafficked for Commercial Sex or Forced labor?  I didn't think it.

I just had an epiphany, a moment, a very long moment really, at a women's conference.  To say that I cried my eyes out for 3 days would be the truest thing I could say of that weekend.  Then, going home to my husband, I sobbed at the dinner table when I told him that I couldn't sit around waiting for grandkids when there were girls, same age as my own daughter, caught, tricked, pretending, surviving, and praying for deliverance.


Looking at me, you'd think oh yeah middle aged woman, overweight, doesn't exercise; equals NO THREAT.  I too would have assumed that, looking at myself.  Yet, there is someone who sees me different.  Someone who sees me as wise, insightful, experienced, with great networks, and willing.  Someone I like to call my best friend, the one who sticks closer than family, my Lord, my God.  HE sees me as able, cause I can do anything He strengthens me to do.

And so the journey began......

5 comments:

  1. I am so proud of you Bee....the Lord isn't the only one who thinks you're capable and special and absolutely wonderfully amazing. I love you friend and am so excited about this new passion. There is not enough time in this world to be lazy or sitting around waiting......so much to do on behalf of others.

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  2. yeah. i'm a threat to their business as usual.

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  3. Thanks for linking your new blog to fb!! So glad I discovered this. I have such a penchant for dissing the Holy Spirit's directional whispers (aw, that's just some undigested beef, right?) until a friend along the road demonstrates that they, too, have heard something that sounds a lot the same. For the past year--or is it two?--I think He's been asking me to start a blog. About what? I dunno. Naahhh... "Just do it, and I'll give you stuff to say." And here you are! With so much to say! Revealing His heart, and the rock-hard reality that He chooses the lowly and despised things of the world--and the things that are not--to nullify the things that are. Way to go, Momma Bee! Thank You, Jesus.
    --Elaine

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  4. Thank you Elaine. It's a start. You know my life scripture is Isa. 61:1...proclaim liberty to captives...

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  5. Sure love you, Bee. You are an inspiration to me!

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