Here is a powerful Father's Day story of a young man who was moved by another father's pain to become resolved to fight child sex trafficking. The unusual element? This young man was already working for an anti-trafficking organization called Love 146. (Francis Chan talks about a similiar "conversion moment" influenced by his fatherhood in his book Forgotten God.) You should read the story through the link, but let me quote the end:
That may all sound dramatic, but it really wasn't. It really was just a simple moment of resonance with another human being. I recognized a pain this man was feeling, but it was on a scale I didn't think could exist. And it changed me.
That is what a movement is about. A movement is about the small conversion moments; those simple points of resonance with our fellow humans, building over time, into something that turns the tide of history.
For Fathers, Sunday is a good day to find these moments. And I hope you do. Because we need your stories next to ours.
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