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Content warning: this devotional mentions human trafficking.
Ever-loving God, the problems of the world feel insurmountable. I am brokenhearted at the news of women trafficked. These are women just like me. Women with dreams and hopes. Women who deserve to have their lives honored. But it feels like such a big problem, and I don’t know where to start. And some days my problems feel insurmountable. How can I take care of myself and others?
Yet, you don’t ask me to save the world. You ask me to bring love right where I am. To offer one small thing: a phone call to a representative, the lighting of a candle, praying by name for missing and indigenous women, and sharing information to bring awareness to human trafficking. Help me to take one small step, one action done in love, and to trust that you will turn my offerings into an abundance of grace and healing. Amen.
This message is excerpted from “Anti-trafficking prayers, leading up to Super Bowl, available now,” prayers by Kimberly Knowle-Zeller from the January 12, 2024, blog of the Women of the ELCA.