He’d pulled a knife on my son, in the 7th grade hallway. Pulled it and said he was going to stab him in the back and kill him next week. This boy ran away shortly after that. He was a habitual runaway. He’d run. Come back. Start the threats over again. This cycle continued through the year. This boy was screaming for someone to take care of him, to make him go to school, to scoop his emotional self up and put him back together each day. Youth rail at boundaries – yet cry out for shepherding.
I prayed for this runaway who had threatened my son – prayed for him like I prayed for my son.
I never imagined, though, my children would consider running – ever. I thought love, healthy boundaries, discipline, encouragement, knowledge of a loving God – I thought that would immunize them to a run-away heart.
Please click over to Cause/Pub ‘s Couch Rebel Project for the rest of the story – this story of a silent epidemic in our communities and churches – just click here.
Thank you, Beck, Amy and Karin for all your encouragement to do this!
CausePub has teamed up with Blood:Water Mission to fund-raise to clean water in Africa.
For every book sold, Blood:Water Mission, will be able to provide three people with clean water for one year. Blood:Water Mission is a grassroots organization that empowers communities to work together against HIV/AIDS and the water crisis in Africa. Blod: Water Mission was founded in 2005 by the multi-platinum GRAMMY Award-winning band, Jars of Clay. Crowd Publishing for Impact is teaming with Blood: Water Mission to sell 15,000 copies of Couch Rebels . The sales from this publication will allowthem to impact 45,000 lives with clean water for a year.
What’s in the book Couch Rebels? That is to be determined now by you. They have asked for writers/bloggers to contribute about an experience that placed them outside their comfort zone. They review submissions to determine phase one of what articles/posts/stories go in the book. If your writer is accepted, you enter phase 2 where readers vote (not just click like but vote) to determine whether your article will be included in the published project.
There’s still a few more days for you to include yours – please do CausePub is accepting stories until 7/2.
Please – stop by and check mine out. Yes, I’m doing the happy dance that I made it past Phase one for 2 writing projects. If you are encouraged, please hit vote.
Wow, congrats! That’s exciting:) BWM is a great organization and doing great work for those who desperately need water and medicine. Hope your story goes on to the next phase!
This is really awesome! The story is very compelling. It seems perfect for a project like this. 🙂
I entered a story, too! Heading over to vote for you! 🙂
Went over and read your story…it was awesome!! Thanks so much for sharing and thanks for linking up today! Have a blessed rest of your week! 🙂
Thank you for your voice dear friend. For your loving heart. And for all of your support over the past week. It has meant the world to me. Love you, e.
I just saw your comment on my blog and had to make a beeline here to see this blog. Any person who references the “peculiar people” passage is a blogger after my own heart. That just happens to be a favorite concept of mine.
I will be clicking to read more of your story (from above), and I will be hanging around to read more from your blog.
What a great opportunity! I am holding thumbs for you, Micey, you also should enter for you have a great story to tell!
Blessing XX
Mia
So glad you commented on my blog post so I could come over and discover yours. Love it.
Yipeeeeee! Thank you for the shout out, lady. Excited you decided to share that powerful voice of yours.
Love this. Thanks for sharing — i work with teens who ‘run.’ I’m going to jump over to cause pub (love cause pub, too!) to read the rest. Thank you for sharing, these are messages that need to be heard.