Does anyone read me?
If so I guess you really don’t need to let me know, it would just be nice.
or 
In response to this question: ”Child, what will you live to do? What have I made for you? What will you leave behind?” good question…not sure if I am there yet…I would like to answer this question from God though…so here is to answering those questions…those difficult, challenging questions that make you have to change, or to do something.
Reflections from the movie: Call + Response
I am so glad that I saw my friend Kim online and instant messeged her and asked her what she was doing. She and I went and saw C + R and found ourselves in a theater of youth groups, one person wearing an invisible children sweatshirt. Kim was preparing to cry, and I just wanted to see the musical expression of the traumatic issue of sex traffiking. I was very informed of the way that life in generaly can be a process of calling and responding to God with what is going on in the world. To put it from the website:
Music is part of the movement against human slavery. Dr. Cornel West connects the music of the American slave fields to the popular music we listen to today, and offers this connection as a rallying cry for the modern abolitionist movement currently brewing.
I am used to hearing about the issues of the world and feeling the despair of it. This was a very proactive approach to the issue of sex traffiking: through song. Not only was there song or music as a response, but a root pulled consumeristic blow to our worlds about how we buy sweat shopped items, such as clothes, etc. Talk about a revelation! I mean what are we buying, what do we wear, what do we use? Crazy thoughts.
Good very well be the downfall of a nation…
or maybe a less dramatic wording yet still truthful, “the cost of community” as my pastor would say. Kim and I were discussing what someone else said in the movie (Ashley Judd): “I don’t want to be wearing somebody else’s tragedy. I don’t to wear someone else’s despair.” How God can we live this life with this need? Do we just cut out all that is made from a slave movement? Let alone the research involved. It really isn’t something we can do alone. I know that I have already made significant cuts out of buying clothing from places such as The Gap, H & M, even Ross, etc. To do without…and to suport thrift store shopping, finding places with logos such as
or just thoughts…
goodbye for now
Beth
