[Beauty of the Broken]
I have never witnessed more of Gods beauty than in these beautiful survivors of Human Trafficking eyes. Within this past week I have had the blessing of spending quality time with one lovely lady from the safe house in particular. Honestly she is the one I have been praying to open up the most, and she definitely has. This girl is so beautiful and is so sweet, as they all are. We had time to do a little browsing through K-Mart and my favorite... thrift shopping! She told me a little bit about her home town and cooked me authentic food!
Also, this week both of the safehomes that Restore NYC operates, came together for the first time for a outing to the Natural History Museum! We had an absolute blast! I truly believe events in group settings every once in a while is very character building for the women. Just to be out of the house is a wonderful time for them.
So many of you may know, God has called me to study Art Therapy in college, so I decided to work on getting some donations set up for the girls to receive art supplies. From the sounds of it, looks like we will be very successful in that department ! (Thanks Jonathan!)
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[Broke down in tears at church this past Sunday.]
Many of you have heard of the story in the bible regarding the widow who is to be stoned. That story had a major impact on me during the message at New Life Fellowship Church in Queens this past Sunday.
I would say many people in society read this story, and think of themselves as the woman getting stoned vs the ones throwing the stones.
Take a step back and think a little outside of the box and reconsider the situation.
Everyone goes through situations in which they have to forgive people.
Forgiveness is a process for sure, but how many stones have you personally been holding onto ?
Bitterness, resentment, unforgiveness, and hate get pretty heavy after a while of carrying them around.
I personally realized I've been carrying (or dribbling you could say) a stone of bitterness against a family member for quite some time now.
This is when I broke down and tears fell...
Not because I couldn't drop the stone
Not for the anger because I felt the bitterness is justifies
Not because I felt guilty
But for the pure joy of realizing God wants to take that stone off my hands.
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[Generosity of strangers]
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[Crazy love by Francis Chan]
Seriously go read this book if you haven't read it. Its absolutely breath grabbing truth.
Throughout this book I became convicted of feeling Lukewarm. Chp 4.
Read it and you will understand why I felt that way.
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[Intricate details of every single building]
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[The process of LOGOFF developing]
When ever I first went to NYCUP Spring Break Plunge 2013 I was introduced to this thing called LOGOFF which is an acronym for Local, Green, Organic, Fair Trade, and Free (slave free).
Have any of you, who do not feel particularly called to work with the poor or the oppressed wonder about how you could help make a difference just by going about your daily tasks? Or even those of you who are called to serve.
LOGOFF is here to help answer on this matter.
First off all LOGOFF online website will be published by this coming fall (I believe)
2ndly are you a consumer?
Statistics show you are!
We all buy clothes, food, and other various products.
Have you ever really thought about where they come from?
If you buy bananas chances are they are coming from Ecuador, and you as a consumer connected with those workers in the process of growing to shipping to in hand bought at the grocery store.
P+I=E Poverty+Isolation=Exploitation.
This is a chance to connect with others positively around the world.
If we all do our part in consuming LOGOFF goods we can literally make the world a better place from our normal everyday lives.
"That's too expensive" "I don't know where to find LOGOFF products" you say..
WELL GUESS WHAT!?
THIS IS WHY IM SUPER STOKED LOGOFF IS DEVELOPING
The website that will be published will be there to help you with all of this, and will explain everything a lot better than I just did! haha
There might even be a phone app.....:)
STAY TUNED! LOGOFF IS GOING TO BE HUGE YOU GUYS!
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[Process of my thoughts being challenged to change radically]
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LOVE YOU ALL !
XOXO -MANDA
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