getting all inspired

I just finished my second day of teaching at the Tijuana YWAM base. It's been a long time since I've done any kind of speaking on human trafficking and it's pretty refreshing. I realize I actually do know things and I do have things to say and I guess I am passionate about this issue. Either that or I'm a really good faker... but I don't feel like one.

The funniest thing happens when I speak; I end up inspiring myself. Usually the issue of trafficking is very blasé to me. I've worked in anti-trafficking for more than seven years now so it's lost a lot of it's original attraction, energy and shine. Not that I feel dispassionate about it. I'm just not really super excited about it like I once was.

So when I get in front of the students and I start saying things like "Dying for something is easy. The harder thing is to live for something, to really live for it, to expend our lives on behalf of that which God has called us to." I think to myself Yeah! I want that. I want to live for something. I want to live my fullest for God. I wanna do that! And I get all inspired.  I think that's one of the biggest presents that I get when I speak... God speaks through me... to me. Ha. You think speakers would have it all figured out but they just don't.

So here's a clip relating to human trafficking that I played for the class today. I thought it would be fun to share.