We need to stop tip toeing

Why do we tip toe? To be quiet, to make sure someone doesn't hear us.

We need to stop tip toeing when it comes to domestic abuse, human sex trafficking. We need to tear down the curtain that hides the reality of what is going on in our world, our states, our towns.

We need to stop avoiding the topics of sex and abusive relationships, of pornography and human trafficking. We need to educate young (as young as some can handle on some topics) and help them to understand that they are important and cannot be treated as objects. We need to teach our sons and daughters that human beings are to be respected and loved, not to sell and abuse. We need to teach our sons to treat a women with respect, no matter the situation. To help her up if she falls, not stomp on her while she is down. We need to teach our daughters that they are beautiful and that they deserve the kind of man that will lift them up every day. To respect themselves and their bodies.

We need to show them as loving parents (if applicable) that it is ok to show affection in appropriate ways and that it is not ok for us to stay in relationships that are not ok. We need to be open so that if something does happen to them, they will come back to us and be open with us so they can get the love and support they will need.

So much is in my heart and brain right now that I can not get it all into words. What I need to say is that human trafficking, domestic abuse, child abuse is on a rampage and we are covering it up with a cloak of denial. The curtain needs to be ripped open and everyone needs to help those in need!

Solid Grounds

More and more I have been dreaming of my coffee shop dream. Ideas are coming to me from left and right, up and down. Mostly from up! I don't know how I will do this, or when but I pray it will happen. My dream has turned to more about the place, not the coffee. Ideas I have so far:
Solid Grounds for the name.
A place that people want to gather. Comfy chairs all around. Of course coffee. I want Bible verses on the walls, everywhere. I want bookshelves full of books. I want a movie screen to have fun family time on special nights. I want to hold a Bible study. I want to have open mic night. I want to sell Trades of Hope (something I will be selling soon, keep your eyes open), I want to sell home made products for the community I will be in. I want it to be a place that people can come and enjoy and have fun evening activities. I can see it in my head. I have no idea how to move forward, but I pray for God to provide the way, if it is what He wants me to do.