How does 31 Days affect me?
I love going to the movies. In my crazy world, i love to take an afternoon and go to a matinee. Sometimes, it’s an escape. Other times it’s just to relax. Or maybe I’m on a sweet date with my hubby. Whatever the reason, I love to watch a movie.
As I think about many of the victims of human trafficking, they must feel as though they are in their own personal horror movie. But they never asked to be the star of this show, and they wonder if the horror will ever end. I wonder where they escape to in their minds. As the unthinkable is happening to them day after day, night after night, they must escape in their minds just to survive. What kind of story might they be writing? What fairytales do they dream in order to escape the horrors of their realities? Oh how I wish I could reach in to every dark room, every cage and every dark corner of despair and whisper, “you are not alone. Someone is writing your story. And He has the final word in your life.”
This month, I will be giving up my movie habit. No more cinemas, redbox or Comcast OnDemand. I will give the money my husband and I would have spent on our movie tickets and movie snacks to The Home Foundation’s domestic shelters program. It’s a small sacrifice, but I pray that God will multiply the effort. And I have also committed to pray every day for freedom. I will pray for the oppressed for 10 minutes every day for 31 days, and that God will “Let justice run down like water, and righteousness like a mighty stream”. (Amos 5:24.)
Join me. What will you give up?
This is ALL for freedom,
Natalie Grant