Okay ladies...In my sociology class we had a dicussion about women rights and it spiraled out of control lol Did you know that in Saudi Arabia it is ILLEGAL for a women to have a driver liscense or walk around without a male escort, they can't vote, they have no voice. In India baby girls who are born to a family that has more than one daughter already they are murdered and not by the government but by their parents. This is because females are more expensive especailly to a poor family, to find her a husband. So they rather kill the baby girls. Did you know that in several countries in Africa women are circumcised, this is to prevent them from having sex before marraige and when its time for them to get married they get the stiches removed. Many times females die during this surgery, and it is not uncommon for the surgery to take place with no medication. And if things couldn't get worse they peform this on females as early as..THREE YEARS OLD. Imgaine all these precious jewels dying each day.Also, out of all of the countries in the world guess what the US ranked for women tolerance..23!! That is disturbing, that in the land of the free women are still oppressed. The United States should be top 10. In the United States women only earn 70% of what men earn for doing the same job. I just wanted to share this with you all so when we are in our prayer time we cry out for all the jewels in the world who are being oppressed.And remeber that this ministry (sapphire) is bigger than just us hanging out...Thoughts anyone??
Pj, i enjoyed this post a whole lot because you laid out some hard facts about the women in this world and it opened my eyes to not only how fortunate i am, but that i have a power in my belly to intercede on behalf of the women of this world. Although the US is no 23, we are so much more fortunate than the ranking 24 and higher countries. Vigor and all of the other ladies who are apart of Sapphire must realize that God has chosen us many other women in the world to carry this burden for His jewels, so i pray that we do just that...
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lets get get cruunk!!!! sapphire baby!!!!!!!!!!!
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