Inspiration

The inspiration for this blog and more importantly for the idea of grace housing came from my best friend from childhood. I was a freshman in college and on a whim called her to see how things had been going. She and her current roommate had gotten into a huge fight and she had been kicked out of the apartment. In a sudden desperate realization she said "I have no where to live". She had move out of her parents house when she was 18 and it was not a possibility to go back.

I Thank God my parents are the people they are because I was immediately able to tell her to stay and my house and called my parents who were more than willing to help her out. The point of this abbreviated story is that there are so many people who have no where to turn. There are children out there who have abusive parents, sexually and physically, and are drive to the streets with no Grace in sight. They end up stealing, prostituting and doing drugs just to make it through the day. Our society, instead of giving them the Grace needed to achieve a healthy and normal life, we criticize them for making poor "choices" in life.

I want to open housing that will aid women in the exit of prostitution, help victims of trafficking in persons, and provide the little bit a Grace that can prevent women and children from having to resort to the ruthless grips of selling their bodies for sex.