What's Your Bid?

I am reading through Red Moon Rising currently and came across this fascinating poem.  As I wrestle through it - I would love to know your thoughts!

What am I bid?

Suddenly I find myself in a giant hall. Surrounding me are thousands of young people, battered, bruised and broken. Then a voice says: “What am I bid?”

A young girl stands out before the crowd of leering, sneering men. “What am I bid for this piece of flesh?”
The men start to cheer and shout figures: “Ten…Twenty…Fifty…One hundred.”
What can I do, God?
I start to bid. I have to save her. The cost becomes huge and I begin to waiver. Can I afford this? What price will I pay? The dream stops. I’m alone again. But the faces are real enough: Sharon being sold into prostitution; Sipho with a revolver in his mouth; Monique covered in cuts and bruises; Jan falling into crime; Sarah alone and desperate; Monwabisi, heroin needle bulging into his vein.

“What am I bid?” The voice shatters the silence. The auction is on again. The bidding has begun. It continues day and night until the end. Most of the bidders desire only use and abuse. Satan drives them on.
And so I find myself in the auction. Will I watch or will I bid? The price of a single life is huge. The currency is prayer. The cost is massive but the prize is glorious. A life for a life. “What am I bid?”

Treasure

On Tuesdays we are able to have a kids club in Lucy's home!  We have all of the kids in our Vulnerable Children program meeting on Fridays, but our goal is to empower Kids also to lead there own! Our normal start to kids club is singing songs in Xhosa and a song or two in English.  After the songs usually we prepare a brief lesson and something simple for the kids to tangibly apply to their life!  This week we decided to take Lucy and Luvuyo to a movie because they help us with the Tuesday Kids Club! Unfortunately the Theater closes Friday so no more movies for under $2.

Even with the theater closing down, the kids still know how to have fun after Kids Club!  Check out one of the MANY dances and songs the children know.

TIA moment's for this week:Shark bites off legs of swimmer who ignored shark warning

This happened on the beach where we baptized Okuhkle - just a few miles from where I live! 

Power went down in ALL of Cape Town for nearly two hours yesterday.


Tangible Takeaway - Although my comfort level is being stretched daily, I miss my family and friends, I don't have the convenience to watch the Hawks games or Sportscenter daily like I would at home - I am truly full of peace and Africa feels like home. I think being in the most beautiful place in the world helps a little :), but I believe there is no worldly explanation a place so far from home could truly feel like home. The only explanation I have found for this peace is Luke 12:34 For where your treasure is, there the desires of your heart will be also.  God has given me new desires and strength daily, allowing me focus on THIS season of life and nothing else.


What is your treasure and where is it found?

Videos!

Enjoy these two videos!  The first is from a Vulnerable Children Camp held in July. The video shows a few of the children I get to hang out with and a few of my friends I work with!



Here is a 360 degree view from the summit of Chapman's Peak.


Chapman's Peak from Jay Quick on Vimeo.