As The World Turns

 

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because

he could do only a little.

Edmund Burke

 

While we set in our comfy living rooms enjoying our big screen TV, the world turns. As we complain about not having enough, the world turns. As we drop our children off at their schools, the world turns. It's time that we stop the world for a second and thank God for what we have and the opportunity to worship Him without going underground.  

Did you send your child of 4yrs old out to clean houses, to clean up human waste or slavery so you could put food on the table?  Did you sell your oldest child to pay off a debt, that you had to pay or be killed?  Is your child on the streets begging for coins to buy one meal for the day?  The world turns!

Children are being left on trains by their parents because they can't feed them, hoping that someone would take them to be helped. Women are taking their children to the market where they sell vegetables, fish,and material things. Also trying to sell their children for whatever they can get, in hopes that their other children will have food and shelter for the rest of their lives. And still The world turns!

"No Longer A Slumdog" talks about all these thing and still in the United States of America (under God) The world turns. I know we have some of this going on right here in the US but we can work to pull ourselves out of poverty. In some places if you are born into poverty you must stay in that place. You are perceived as unclean and you will contaminate others if you touch them or drink from the same water station. Millions are trapped in there life, stuck in the mindset that things can't and will not change.

Just think where your family would be now if you go back in time to where your great, great, great grandparents were classified. They were very poor, living in the woods, building a fire to stay warm, killing animals for dinner, laying on the ground to sleep. If I lived in India I would be in that class to this day. Nothing has changed but The world turns!

                        The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis,

but rather the feeling of being unwanted.

                                             Mother Teresa

 

While reading this book I have come to realize that all I have has come from God. He owns everything and if He takes it, I must be thankful for the time I had it. I also must be willing to open my home and heart to those in need.  Look around you and decide what you can do without. God hasn't ask you to do it yet but He might. Also take time to look at people-in the eyes.  Do you see loneliness? What can you do? I'm only one person! Guess what, so are they. 

                    The first question that the priest...and the Levite asked was:"If I stop to help this,
                    man what will happen to me?" But the Good Samaritan ... reversed the question:
                    "If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him"?
                                           Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

I want everyone to understand this is not a blog about Trades of Hope, but a blog about helping others in this world of ours that is turning so fast that we never stop to say a pleasant word to someone in pain or in need. I'm am grateful that I found Trades of Hope to help me be a voice for the women around the world who have no one to speak for them.  There are wonderful groups that are doing missionary work, sending money to missionaries, praying for others, helping right in your community. I praise God for all of you and I hope to connect with you in some way during my life time.

I'm excited to be going to Haiti in May to learn more about what I can do to make a difference. So please add myself and the wonderful ladies that are going on this trip to your prayer list.

I will leave you with this bible verse. "I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.  Matt 25:40  but the opposite is also true:  "Whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me." Matt 25:45
 
                            AND THE WORLD TURNS!



*No Longer A Slumdog- Bringing Hope to Children in Crisis
K.P. Yohannan

Trying something new!

 

 

 

Let me be God's eyes, ears, hands and legs!

Send me Lord! 

 

 

 

 





"When one women comes out of poverty she brings 4 others with her".

Trades of Hope!  What does that mean to you?  I want to use this blog to show you what Trades of Hope means to me and same information about our artisans. We are learning so much every day about what these women go through in their daily lives. So as you look at the pictures watch their eyes and smiles. To me this is amazing.

                                        Are you thinking about what Trades of Hope means ?

 

When was the last time that you had to think about where you would get water for your family?

When did you have to make mud pies to feed your children for dinner? 

 I'm not trying to be a downer but I want to get your attention.

 

My goal is to be a voice for women who have no voices, to help break the cycle of poverty, and to help women out of poverty! 

What goals do you have?

THE SCRIPTURES GIVE US PATIENCE AND ENCOURAGEMENT SO THAT WE CAN HAVE HOPE!Romans 15:4

 

Trades of Hope was started by 2 wonderful ladies who felt God's calling to do more in this world. He put them on a beach together one day and from there we now have

Trades of Hope.

I'm a CE (Compassion Entrepreneur) selling items for artisans from around the world.

I know that God chose me to be part of this company and I will do what every the Lord leads me to do to help His people. I can't tell you how my heart breaks when I read about a 6 year old girl who is sold by her family to a wealthy family just to clean their houses. The 12 year old who is now in the sex trade because her family could no longer support her or is stolen from the family and they can't find their son or daughter.  One of our artisans was covered in acid all over her face.              

 

 This is her story..

"My name is Jariya. Acid was flung in my face, burning me and dissolving my skin. I am rebuilding my life and it gives me courage to know that I am not alone. I am starting this business so that women like me, many of whom are left to raise their children on their own, can have a chance to earn their own living in safety!" 

 

 

This beret is for adult sizes but all the girls love it! 

 

Now she makes an item for Trades of Hope but will not let us show her face.      I know what you're thinking. WE HAVE PEOPLE IN OUR OWN BACK YARDS THAT NEED HELP.  You are so right.  We don't just sell items from other countries.

 

 

 

  

 

 This is Thistle Farms Café located in Nashville, TN.  They are connected to Thistle Farms Store, where  they make items for Trades of Hope to purchase and place in the catalog. Lip Balm is one of the items they make for Trades of Hope. At Thistle Farms you can go through a program to get off the streets but it is a 2yr program. You are expected to go to school, work at the facility, and stay clean. They go to school to learn to use computers and get their GED.
After graduation some of the girls come back to volunteer at the café or in the production of the products.
                                         Stop by for a copy of coffee and a tour.

 

I have so many artisans I want to introduce to you but for now I will save them for the next blog. 

 

The bible tells us to take care of widows, the poor, and the orphans.

That's what I plan to do!  Now what do you think Trades of Hope means?

 

Check out my Facebook page at www.facebook.com/rainybenedict.toh

and my web page www.mytradesofhope.com/rainybenedict

 

Let me know what you think by leaving a post.

I plan to use this blog to share Trades of Hope with you by doing giveaways, specials,  hosting online parties, and making new friends. Hope to hear from you soon!