There will always be poor people...
"Perhaps one of the greatest emergencies of our generation is the reality that 1.2 million children are being trafficked into the sex trade each year. That’s more than 2 children every minute of every day." I don't know about you, but when I read those sentences, my brain shuts off and I start thinking about other things. I think about anything that distracts me from pausing and taking that information in. We do this for a couple of reasons. The first reason we tend to shut down is as a coping mechanism . If we allow ourselves to take in all the evil in the world, the reality of the suffering people are enduring, we will become emotionally exhausted. We know we can't fix all the world's problems, so in an effort to preserve our emotional stability and sanity, we shut out what we know we can't do anything about. The second reason is something hiding beneath the surface. We shut down because that is the tactic of the devil to push us towards a