Count Your Blessings

It's very easy in the day-to-day grind of life for us to take our blessings for granted. Whether you are a believer of Almighty God or not, you are blessed when you consider the following:

• Right now there are U.S. children far away from home who are being beaten and sold for sexual services.  If you have children and they are safe, you are blessed and so are your children.
  
• Right now there are men and women working very long hours with little or no pay while being deceived (i.e. have deb to pay off that keeps growing); isolated; abused and threatened (themselves or family members).  If you have a job that allows you to come and go and pays a wage without the fear of abuse or threats, you are blessed.
  
• Right now there are women who are being told they are worthless, hopeless, ugly, stupid, and that no one cares about them.  If you have people in your life who love you, you are blessed.
  
• Right now children, women and men enslaved by trafficking (for sex and labor) do not have the freedom to eat whenever or whatever they want; are not free to come and go as they please; cannot receive medical care; are not allowed to speak for themselves; cannot go to school; cannot contact family and friends for help, etc. If you can do or have any of these things, then you are blessed.

As long as slavery exists, we cannot call our country the "Land of the Free".  No one has the right to deny an individual their freedom and no one has the right to sell another person.

Please take a moment in your "daily grind" to count your blessings and to pray and remember the children, women and men being trafficked all across the U.S.