a dress with a voice
It's day 2 of Dressember for me. Yesterday I sat in arena chairs and cheered on my daughter's high school dance team all day. I held Josiah on my lap and helped him eat "Dippin Dots" for the first time and got my dress really dirty. Then he fell asleep on my lap and remained there for 2 hours, up in the nose bleed section of Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines, Iowa. While scrolling through facebook I saw lots of photos of people joining the effort to raise awareness and funds to help stop human trafficking. Junior high kids are even doing it! Jeremiah told me today that a sixth grade boy in his school is dressing up for school every day for Dressember.......
I sat down in my favorite spot this morning with my coffee, preparing for some quiet time and thought to myself... "The dress gives a voice to human trafficking. To prostitution. To people trading money for sex. These are things that the human race has been keeping quiet since the dawn of man." The old testament speaks of Rahab the prostitute in Joshua 2: Then Joshua son of Nun secretly sent two spies from Shittim. "Go look over the land, " he said, "especially Jericho." So they went and entered the house of a prostitute named Rahab and stayed there.
It would be easy to just accept the fact that this exists in our society and then move about our days.....but people are now starting to bring dark things to light. Young teens, college kids, men and women in market places and circles of friendship are standing in agreement that this is not ok. It never was. It never will be. Human trafficking is not ok. It has to stop. Psalm 139:11 says this: If I say, "surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me," even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you. ( Darkness is as light to God. The dark things are NOT hidden from him. He sees them as clearly as he does the "light" things. )
I believe that if you join this effort, it changes you. I believe that my sons, who see their mom and sister wearing a dress to school and events and outings, and yes, even at home......and they understand why......will change them, too. I believe that they will think twice before they click on the link on the internet that will lead them to pornography. I believe they will stop and pause before they join in the laughter at a dirty joke that is demeaning to women and their bodies. I am changing the culture of this home, and of the future working men of the world right here. Every Dressember.
I cannot just do it by wearing the dress though. I have to also have the voice. These posts are part of my voice because they help form thoughts and words for other people, too. We have to have the voice. Even if we do not have the statistics ready when someone asks, at the bare minimum, we can say this. "I am wearing a dress in December to help people understand that human trafficking is not ok." It's that simple. the Holy Spirit can take that little seed planted and grow bigger truths and bigger awareness and bigger convictions in every one we encounter.
Our dresses have voices. Wear one every day you can this month.......because human trafficking is NOT ok.
I sat down in my favorite spot this morning with my coffee, preparing for some quiet time and thought to myself... "The dress gives a voice to human trafficking. To prostitution. To people trading money for sex. These are things that the human race has been keeping quiet since the dawn of man." The old testament speaks of Rahab the prostitute in Joshua 2: Then Joshua son of Nun secretly sent two spies from Shittim. "Go look over the land, " he said, "especially Jericho." So they went and entered the house of a prostitute named Rahab and stayed there.
It would be easy to just accept the fact that this exists in our society and then move about our days.....but people are now starting to bring dark things to light. Young teens, college kids, men and women in market places and circles of friendship are standing in agreement that this is not ok. It never was. It never will be. Human trafficking is not ok. It has to stop. Psalm 139:11 says this: If I say, "surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me," even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you. ( Darkness is as light to God. The dark things are NOT hidden from him. He sees them as clearly as he does the "light" things. )
I believe that if you join this effort, it changes you. I believe that my sons, who see their mom and sister wearing a dress to school and events and outings, and yes, even at home......and they understand why......will change them, too. I believe that they will think twice before they click on the link on the internet that will lead them to pornography. I believe they will stop and pause before they join in the laughter at a dirty joke that is demeaning to women and their bodies. I am changing the culture of this home, and of the future working men of the world right here. Every Dressember.
I cannot just do it by wearing the dress though. I have to also have the voice. These posts are part of my voice because they help form thoughts and words for other people, too. We have to have the voice. Even if we do not have the statistics ready when someone asks, at the bare minimum, we can say this. "I am wearing a dress in December to help people understand that human trafficking is not ok." It's that simple. the Holy Spirit can take that little seed planted and grow bigger truths and bigger awareness and bigger convictions in every one we encounter.
Our dresses have voices. Wear one every day you can this month.......because human trafficking is NOT ok.
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