Meet REGGIE LITTLEJOHN

Reggie Littlejohn, a graduate of Yale Law School, has been called "a global champion for saving girls."  She is an activist  intent on saving girls in China and blasts 1-child policy at every opportunity.

I first heard about Reggie Littlejohn today.  World Net Daily included an article" Fighting the real 'war on women' - written by Taylor Rose, a Washington, D.C., staff reporter for WND.

This article caught my attention.

What a difference one person can make.  What a difference one woman can make!  As women, once we set our minds to do something, it usually gets done.  We are persistent that way! 

We all know that jokes about women are too numerous to count, such as this one:  A man inserted an advertisement in the classifieds:  "Wife Wanted." The next day he received a hundred letters. They all said the same thing: "You can have mine."

All jokes aside, women are powerful.  God can use women who have a passion and a vision to stand up for what is right.  My hat is off to Reggie Littlejohn. 

The article states:
The one-child policy is the biggest women’s rights violation in the world. One out of every five women on earth lives under the threat of forced abortion or involuntary sterilization. If no one else had dedicated their life to these women, I determined that I would,” said Littlejohn.
She soon founded Women’s Rights Without Frontiers and assumed the mantel of a leader of the movement in the West to raise awareness of the horrors of China’s one-child policy.

 Littlejohn notes WRWF does not receive any financial support from any government and that in order to get WRWF started, she and her husband sold their home.

She now has launched the “Save a Girl” campaign.
“We are ending forced abortion and gendercide in China, one baby at a time,” Littlejohn she said.

For all of her work in Europe, Littlejohn still fights for an awakening in America.
“The problem is … the propaganda of the Chinese media that corrupts the debate and the Western media buys into it their propaganda.”
The biggest problem with America is not that anybody opposes her work “but rather the reaction is just silence.”

Her statement regarding the silence of America bothers me because she is right.  We are not opposing her good work, but we are SILENT.   Women, we are guilty of remaining silent about important issues.  While Facebook, tweets, and emails are filled with daily yawns, broken fingernails, and opinions....we remain SILENT as hell robs humanity of hope and life ... right before our eyes!

We hear sermons about the CHURCH coming awake, alive, and alert.  BUT, WOMEN!!   IT'S TIME WE TAKE A STAND.  WE CAN DO THIS!  A nation can be turned around when WOMEN are determined!  I believe it. 

I'm encouraged by Reggie Littlejohn.  God help each one of us (Men and Women) to STAND UP, SPEAK UP, and help us fight the good fight of faith! 

My prayer:  "Dear God, please put a burning passion in my heart for a cause - Open doors ... and ... windows of opportunity to be heard - Help me to make a difference while I live and breathe!"

Amen ... and amen.
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 Link for the WND article on Littlejohn:  http://www.wnd.com/2012/12/fighting-the-real-war-on-women/

DJANGO UNCHAINED

Rated R‎‎ - Western/Drama‎
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Set in the South two years before the Civil War, Django is a slave whose brutal history with his former owners lands him face-to-face with German-born bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz. 

Django Unchained took in $15 million on Christmas Day, putting it at #2 behind Les Miserables ($18.2 million). The Hobbit came in at #3 with $11.3 million. This makes Django Unchained the fifth highest-grossing Christmas release. 

Quentin Tarantino never has bowed to Hollywood convention. In fact, his unorthodox cocktail of cross-genre storytelling, garish bloodshed and overall lack of traditional reverence has made him one of the industry's most adored -- if not feared -- filmmakers.
"Not one word of social criticism that's been leveled my way has ever changed one word of any script or any story I tell."

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DR. TED BAEHR, founder and spokesman of The Christian Film & Television Commission, says the movie rating should be changed from "R" to NC-17 due to the violent scenes.

His reason:  “This movie ends with two of the most violent scenes we’ve ever seen in more than 27 years of reviewing movies.   As countless research studies and recent events in Connecticut have shown, some young boys and men like to imitate the violence they see in movies, TV, and video games.”

The movie shows blood erupting like lava from bodies when people are shot. Also in the movie, a slave is eaten by dogs and a man hanging upside down is threatened with castration.

“Rating DJANGO NC-17 would be the right thing to do,” Dr. Baehr concluded.

MANDISA, Christian Recording Artist, posted hours ago on her Facebook page:  Um...I thought I better post after seeing as much as I could handle of "Django Unchained". It's not what I thought. Full of the worst gore & language I've seen. I love several of the actors, but I can't in good conscience recommend it. Maybe I'll hit Redbox on the way home.

 

JANE, author of this blog, says, if a film is rated "R" and should be changed to NC-17,  then it probably isn't good for adults to see, either!   IF IT IS FILLED WITH THE WORST GORE AND LANGUAGE EVER SEEN, tell me why decent, family loving, hard working Americans want to see it?  Especially, why would Christians pay to see actions and hear language which we teach and preach against?   

 

I agree with Dr. Baehr.  Children can see an "R' movie if accompanied by an adult...but “There are many confused parents out there,” Dr. Baehr noted. “Public safety demands that ignorant or irresponsible filmmakers not be allowed to corrupt children with graphic violence or explicit sexual images and content.”

No, it doesn't make it any less offensive (or acceptable) if you wait till it comes out on DVD and rent to watch in the privacy of your home. 

What good does it do for our government to ban guns from citizens but still allow such corruption to be portrayed on the screen, knowing this will influence society to imitate these bizarre actions?  Such actions depicting a wild lack of restraint....actions so extreme that they lose touch with reality.

 

Draw a line in the sand, saints.  Enough is enough. 

To sign the Commission’s petition to the MPAA, citizens can follow this link at www.cftvc.org: http://www.cftvc.org/django-unchained/.

 

STARBUCKS says, "Come Together"

The world's biggest coffee chain is asking employees at cafes in the Washington, D.C. area to scribble the words "Come Together" on cups for drink orders. CEO Howard Schultz says the words are intended as a message to lawmakers about the damage being caused by the divisive negotiations over the "fiscal cliff."

It's the first time employees at Starbucks cafes are being asked to write anything other than customers' names on cups.

COME TOGETHER:  Two powerful words.  Two words that could possibly prevent nations from war - marriages from disaster - children from alienation to parents...and the list goes on.

We are long past due a COME TOGETHER in our country.  It's time for politicians to put America first - the economy - defense - decent morals - and again, the list goes on.

Starbucks has something here with this "Come Together" thing.  It's time for congregations in all churches to come together.  We must unite (COME TOGETHER) as believers and stand for righteousness and the continuing freedom to express Christianity in our country without ridicule or opposition. 

I read a fitting story in a devotion this morning:

During World War I, in the winter of 1914, on the battlefields of Flanders, one of the most unusual events in history took place. The Germans had been in a fierce battle with the British and French. Both sides were dug in, safe in muddy man-made trenches six to eight feet deep that seemed to stretch forever… but it was Christmas, and what happened next was astonishing, writes Stanley Weintraub, author of the book, Silent Night: The Story of the World War I Christmas Truce.

“The Germans set trees on trench parapets and lit the candles. Then, they began singing carols, and though their language was unfamiliar to their enemies, the tunes were not. After a few trees were shot at, the British became more curious than belligerent and crawled forward to watch and listen. And after a while, they began to sing.

By Christmas morning, the "no man's land" between the trenches was filled with fraternizing soldiers, sharing rations and gifts, singing and (more solemnly) burying their dead between the lines. Soon they were even playing soccer, mostly with improvised balls.”

Though the war had to continue, as commanders on both sides ordered their troops to restart hostilities, this interval of peace during war was extraordinary and unprecedented.  

I wonder how long the soldiers would have continued in their COME TOGETHER time.  Perhaps ... one or two at a time... they would simply turn around and walk away from war...head home and return to their families.   

Isaiah 1:18
Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

Mark 3:24
And if a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.

Mark 3:25
And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.

COME TOGETHER.  It's good.   Come Together  might be a great theme for churches in 2013. 

Thanks, STARBUCKS. 
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