So I am glad that I can participate in LisaJo Baker's writing prompt that she offers every Friday. We sit and just type the words that flow for five short minutes. Maybe I can give you just a tiny glimpse into the environment that we visited yesterday.
Today's prompt is FALL.
GO:
60,000, probably many more bodies in make shift homes of corrugated tin and cinder blocks-cinder blocks if you are doing well, jammed like sardines in less than a quarter square mile.
The women come to the office room to meet with the "whi-woma-" faces shining like ebony glass. The tape rolls on my phone and she explains life in West Point as the other women nod in agreement.
"Twenty girls a month come to see us. They have been raped. Some of the parents do not want them taken to the hospital" . . . because their offenders are friends and uncles of the family. The girls that do get taken to the hospital by these volunteering women are checked and tested for AIDS and other deadly diseases. They soon return receiving some counseling from the women at the Center, to return from whence they have come.
There exists no other alternative.
They have been made to fall- to feel the terror of victimization.
Right now I can only pray that they will discover that He can pick them up out of the ashes.
STOP.
Please pray for me as I prayerfully consider what manner my ministry can be of future hope to them.
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They have been made to fall... I live in Southeastern Kentucky, where the people are poor. How many of our kids have been made to fall, not even given a chance to try to rise up? Thank you for a beautiful message! Blessings to you!
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