Friday night I had some time to just surf the web. Everyone I know was otherwise involved. All messages, all texts, went unanswered. Of course around 10:00 I figured out that my computer was having major problems again/still. I may well have to completely flatten my machine and install XP if I am to ever beat MicroSquish's incomparable inabilities with an operating system, combined with FaceBook's utter lack of not shoving out poorly tested releases! Eeeeeeepah!
Ran across some sites devoted to recipes, but I had already eaten a huge dinner - so really no interest reading them. Then on to European teenage girls and their shopping sites - ah, materialism you sly dog you! Of course, Japanese teenagers and their cats are still a dominate force to contend with on the internet - or rather wade through!
And then, out of nowhere, a site that made me stop to think about what they were writing about.
First off, I have to applaud any group of people willing to take on the issues on human trafficking and work against it. I have felt strongly on this issue since I first learned such a thing existed back in 1981 - with the added emphasis that this was probably what happened to my abducted sister and brother in 1974. (okay, officially now bummed out again)
In this case a group of Mormons, most of them young, in Chile trying to work with the sex trade and pull the prostitutes out of their vocation. In one post, the angst of a young woman venting because the women (really girls) could not understand the concept of abstinence and purity of body.
Too many Mormons in my family, too many Mormons known, too many young Mormon women talked with in-depth - I understood her confusion once I realized what she was saying. How does someone whom has only head knowledge of purity based up the teaching of the Eldership and her parents - share what has become an innate part of her understanding about life?
How does one approach a sex worker, whom may well have never known any other relationship with a man, much less anyone, understand the very basis of their life is wrong? What are their alternatives other than starvation and eventual death?
And I go back to the issue of this culture believing that sex is equal with love, love is expressed through sex. The emphasis is on sex, not on love or what should be love. It just sickens me, honestly! So many youth I have worked with, so much pain, so many lives literally ruined because love is not understood.
How does one reach out to those in the trade? In and with real love, God's love, the love that places them first - and they can see and understand this - though fear, suspicion and violent reactions should be expected ... Once someone understands that they have been used, lied to and betrayed for possibility their entire life - yeah, not pretty. And one of the reasons that the opposite sex will not be involved in the outreach, far too fragile of a situation! Frustrating, I know. But EVERY guy I have known whom gets involved in the witness, does fall eventually. No, you are not the exception.
And back to this young Mormon woman, desiring to reach out to the women working the streets of her mission town, she is attempting to preach a foreign message, to those whom do not even speak that language. It is God's love that is need to reach out to these women, in their need - before then, there never will be any response. And once real love can be understood - then life changes become possible!
I really do wish this woman well in her efforts, if God is behind her work, then He will lead her to those whom she can witness and hopefully deflect from a very destructive lifestyle.
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