Fighting depression & human trafficking

The fight against Human Trafficking is close to my heart. I find it also ties my life to others who share my burden, friends like Genny Heikka and Teri Lynne Underwood.  Click on their names to see what they BOTH shared about the issue just this week. (If you follow me on Pinterest, I pinned both of these and you can add them to your pinboards, too.) Our hearts flow in the same stream.

But then things like graduation happens, and along with that come things like relatives visiting and parties and gift choices and taking time to say important words. All of a sudden I start putting time and energy into “big” decisions like using the medium tortellini or the large tortellini, votive candles or pillar candles, hair up or hair down … You see where this is going.

Details have the potential to suck us down the road to drama and drama is a fast route to depression.

One of the best ways to assure that details don’t outgrow their real size and demand more energy or time or significance than they should is to widen our view.  Considering the needs of others is a great way to guard against depression. Look up and out to bigger things, more eternal things, more … yes, important things. Graduation is important, and for us it’s pretty big this weekend, but let’s not forget that 27 million people around the world are enslaved. While my 18 year old joy of a daughter has the privilege of walking across a stage to receive a diploma, millions will never even go to school or where a clean anything or want to be seen in public or grow up to 18. Who has a need in your piece of the world?

I’ll just get the tortellini I see first.  More importantly, I want to share this with you. This is how our city is responding, and I’m so excited to be there. If you’re local, JOIN ME! If you’re in a hometown of your own far away, join us in prayer, because this touches your neighborhood too.