A Cause Bigger than Myself

I subscribe to Rick Warren's daily devotionals. Today's was about discovering causes that disturb you to the point where you say "someone should do something about that." These are the causes God wants to help through you.

I thought for a bit and came up with two things that really disturb me: domestic violence and child slavery. I don't know why domestic violence has pulled at my heart the way it does. While my family has a history of such, I never remember being victim to it. However, even as a child, I felt sick when I watched people hitting each other on movies or TV shows. Child slavery hasn't been such a disturbance until I watched the movies Blood Diamond and Taken.

Because of this revelation, I went to a few child slavery Web sites as ideas of raising money, visiting these safety homes, volunteering went swirling through my head. But then I thought about my own backyard. "Grow where you are planted." God put me in this area for a specific reason. Could this be it? While I don't think the U.S. has a local child slavery center or anything, I did look up the women's domestic violence center in the city. I am going to pray about volunteering there -- to see what God wants to do through me.

Is this something He made me for? He will reveal it in his own time. :)