i'm on a bit of a tear.

The Candy Shop Trailer from Brandon McCormick on Vimeo.

For all non-southerners reading this-- a tear-- (verb--as in to tear something, noun-- refers to the verge of a hissy fit.)

This video is the trailer to a 30 minute film that will be released in November about the sex trafficking of children.

Like everyone, I've been sick about human trafficking since I first heard about it and want to do everything I can to stop it----AND----when it is your own children who were the potential victims of such unspeakable horrors, the threat becomes frighteningly personal.  I've been tormented by stories they tell me about life before and after they were orphaned.  The children where they are from live in constant terror of being abducted and sold into a trafficking ring.  There are men and women lurking everywhere who offer starving children candy and biscuits.  They were always smart enough to run-- fast-- but there are MANY who aren't so fortunate.  Mercy tells of a nice man who warned her to always run away fast when someone got too close to her----- I totally believe that was an angel.

They tell of worrying about sweet baby James, who wasn't so savvy and liked candy a little bit too much.

They speak of kids who "just weren't there anymore."

They've seen a 3 year old little girl, "who looked just like Levi," sold for cash, put in a box and covered with a lid.

They tell of the terrified look on a child's face when a bad man is trying to catch her.

I don't like sharing this at all-- For it is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret.

But everything exposed by the light becomes visible, for it is light that makes everything visible.

That is why it is said:

"Wake up, O sleeper,

rise from the dead,

And Christ will shine on you."

Ephesians 5:12-14

So what can we do about it?

I'm not going to ask you to give money.

I'm not going to ask you to call your congressman

or sign a petition....

at least not right now.

What we ALL have to do is WAKE UP and realize that WE are the problem.

For none of us lives to himself alone and none of us dies to himself alone. Romans 14:7

What we buy

What we watch on television and at the movies

What we read

What we allow our minds to be entertained by

How we speak--

Our self-centered apathy to the consequences of our actions...

ALL FUELS the HUNGER for more and more....

AS the CHURCH--- as image bearers of CHRIST--- we are under obligation to set the captives free------ 

and we are under the obligation to --

Be very careful,then, how you live-- not as unwise but as wise, making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil.  Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord's will is.

Ephesians 5:15-17