"Spread the Word, Spread the LOVE"

About a year ago, Anthony (my husband) called me back  to look at something on the computer. He asked me if I ever heard of love146 before, to which I replied, "NO" and then he proceeded to have me watch a video. The video was Rob Morris (co founder of love146) talking about his experience in southeast Asia and the reason behind the name love146.  You can watch that video and read more HERE.  It took all I had not to burst into tears right there and then...honestly.  The story lingered with me for several days...I couldn't shake the idea that these atrocities were actually taking place all over the world, every single hour of every single day...it actually made me sick.  See I knew all about prostitution, and have even heard of sex slavery and human trafficking, but never before had something hit me with so much force as when I heard the story of the girl with number 146 pinned to her little red dress...

A few months later Anthony and I watched the movie "Taken"... I hate to recommend it to anyone because it is one of the single handedly worst movies I have ever seen, solely based on the content matter and the sad fact that it is so entirely accurate to what is going on all over the globe today.   I had nightmares, anxiety attacks, and a severe fear post watching this movie for several weeks - WHY?  Because I realized the sad state of the world we live in...where people, human beings, would actually allow this insanity to exist...and exist it certainly does!  Human trafficking and sex slavery is a 32 billion dollar a year industry...the second most "lucrative" crime in the world ( I am assuming drug trafficking is the first).  Every minute 2 innocent children are sold into this horrible world...and even more sad...a lot of times it is by their own parents who are that desperate for money.

After this, I couldn't ignore my passion for this subject...but what could I do?  So I prayed...for government, for the girls and boys who daily are subjected to this horror, for organizations who are dedicated to put an end to it...and I will continue to pray...but now I am doing something practical, as well, to help....AND YOU CAN TOO!!!

On Monday FEB 8th, I am going to start my first "contest" here on my blog (as well as facebook). I will explain more of the details in an additional post, including the "rules" for the contest, but I wanted to share the WHY.

Anthony and I decided this year, that instead of celebrating Valentines Day and buying gifts for each other or going out to a nice restaurant...that we are going to put our money to use for a good cause, for something that we both feel extremely passionate and broken for.  See, we both know that we love each other, we both feel loved, and personally did not feel the need to spend money to show this to one another...so we are giving money to the love146 organization so that they may use it to SPREAD LOVE to those who definitely NEED it...who don't know what LOVE is, or who have the wrong idea of what LOVE should be...the final amount will depend on ALL OF YOU!!! Don't worry we are not asking for money or donation or anything like that...all YOU will need to do is place a simple vote...and as I said before, I will have another post describing what all is involved and such =)

My hope is not only to make a difference FINANCIALLY for this organization, but to at least SPREAD the WORD...and make more and more people aware of this issue and hopefully stir a few others to want to help as well!!

So please stay tuned for updates on my blog, and COME BACK TO VISIT ON MONDAY!!!  Tell your friends to visit my site as well!!  I hope that others will get as excited about this as we are =)

I will leave you with THIS INFORMATION from love146 regarding what they are doing to help this Valentines Day!!  It tells the LOVE STORY of a girl Diana...and proves why we must do something to SPREAD THE LOVE to these slaves who have no idea what LOVE should be....