I'm Only One...What Can I Do?
Sometimes, perhaps even often, we go along in life, oblivious to what is going on in the world around us, the real world, inhabited by people whose experience is totally unlike our own...people who we meet on the street or encounter at the store, without ever knowing- or usually, even wanting to know- anything about them, about who they really are and what their life is really like. But, then, at other times, life hits us between the eyes, opening them- and our hearts- wide...wide enough to let in the awareness that our own way of living and seeing and understanding is simply not enough. This is how I felt on Saturday evening last, when I attended the Stand for Freedom gala sponsored by World Relief of High Point, NC- the place where I live and have lived for the past twelve years. The topic was human trafficking, something I have been hearing about for some time but about which I felt woefully uninformed. I had heard about this event from a friend and made the decision...