Glenda was at my house yesterday.  She is a Mexican woman from Chiapas, a state in the South of Mexico.  She was telling me about her husbands relationship with his stepdad.  He grew up on a coffee plantation in Chiapas were his mom and stepdad worked cutting coffee.  His stepdad would send him out at three years old with a machete to cut down the mountain, and if he balked would beat him.

I definitely believe in chores for kids, but this is what has given God -honoring, hard work in children a bad name.  The story of some people in Mexico sounds at times so completely unbelievable.  Glenda herself, had her mother die when she was 6 and then was abused by her older brother, which led her to leave home at 13 years old to be with her current "husband"(in Mexico many people say they are married, but have not really gone through the legal process.)

Just one more reason to be thankful, in many of the world's countries people still die of hunger, children do the work of men, and baby girls are considered a nuisance.  Praise the Lord for his word and his message of love, justice and redemption through Jesus Christ.