Steroid use in South Asian Brothels

http://news.yahoo.com/bangladeshs-teenage-brothels-hold-dark-steroid-secret-024639562.html
Yesterday I decided between wearing blue or green. Why is it that some women deliberate over what color to wear while others over whether to take a livestock-fattening tablet or be beaten and starved?

Think twice about what you think about.  Thanks Laura Joost for sending me this article.

One Thousand Gifts

In January, I posted a list of little things I am thankful for as Ann Voskamp did in her best selling book, "One Thousand Gifts" http://heatherpaiges.blogspot.com/search?q=one+thousand+gifts.

I promised to add to my list:
14. Stained cookbook pages
15. Salon hair washes
16. Sweatshirt just out of dryer
17. Snow on beach
18. Popping packing bubbles
19. Geese high overhead and loud
20. New England in autumn
21. 18th-century stone fences in Connecticut
22. Rooster strutting free
23. First footprints in snowy field
22. Paper snowflakes taped in neighborhood windows
24. Homemade winter hats
25. Fast, clear-toned fiddle
26. Andes chocolate mint on hotel room pillow
27. San Antonio's River Walk on December night
28. Sara Groves and Jars of Clay lyrics

An Announcement

2012 has been a busy year so far, hence the posting gap. Let me tell you why. 

You may have noticed from my posts that I feel strongly about the injustice of child sex trafficking (read these http://abolitioninternational.org/what-we-fight/ quick stats to learn more). To end this heinous crime, pimps must stop selling children for sex, men must stop buying children for sex, men must fight addiction to pornography so that they are less inclined to become abusers, parents must love their children to make them less inclined to run away, and the hearts of already broken girls must be repaired. 

To learn more, watch documentaries:
Sex + Money http://sexandmoneyfilm.com/
Nefarious: Merchant of Souls http://nefariousdocumentary.com/
Very Young Girls http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fX6EaHuRCg

To find ways to help, check any of these sites and/or request their newsletters:
http://www.ijm.org/
http://www.sharedhope.org/Home.aspx
http://streetlightusa.org/
http://www.notforsalecampaign.org/
http://love146.org/

ANNOUNCEMENT:

I am called to repair women's hearts, so I have signed on to be the Assistant Director for New Jersey's first restoration home, Love True. I cannot wait to tell you about Love True's developments, so check here for updates and keep us in your prayers! 

Thank you.

Blue Eyes

My adorable little boy is growing up!  He's rolling from belly to back and bouncing in a jumperoo and eating mushy stuff and is very talkative.  I try to post videos from my computer and it doesn't work.  Does any one know the trick?