Radical gratitude

Gloria Steinham writes and speaks about radical feminism. She says "fire in the belly doesn't come from gratitude.

Ann Voskamp writes about another kind of radical. It comes from gratitude. Ann has learned

When you are radically grateful for what you have, you will go to radical lengths to share it. When you are radically grateful for being blessed — you are radically generous to the oppressed.

And that’s what I don’t know if Steinhem knows: When you’re overwhelmed with the goodness of God to you — you overflow with the goodness of God to others.

The radically grateful can never stand for injustice –- because they are moved by radical grace.

You can’t know grace and not be moved. Grace starts movements.

Grace is a catalyst.

And I’m all turned around in just south of Port-au-Prince: When gratitude to God revolutionizes your life, God uses you to revolutionize the world.

It’s why God said to give thanks in everything.

Don’t hear me, Ms. Steinem. Hear God: Radical Gratitude is the attitude of the revolutionaries.

So Ann and her family have arrived in Haiti. She will be writing this week from there. She asks us to read about the A21 campaign against human trafficking.

A21 represents victims of human trafficking. It builds shelters for them. It estimates that 27 million human beings are in bondage across the globe. The average age of victims is 12-years-old. Only 1-2% of victims are ever rescued. Human trafficking is the illegal trade of human beings, mainly for the purposes of forced labor and sex trafficking. As the world’s fastest growing criminal industry, it affects every nation across the globe. Every thirty seconds, someone is forced into this type of bondage—modern slavery.