In the excellent film The Sound of Freedom, actor Jim Caviezel, starring as former special agent Tim Ballard, delivers one of the greatest lines ever spoken on film. Asked by another character why he fights against child sex trafficking, Caviezel replies, “God’s children are not for sale.” It was a devasting line. You could hear dozens of people in the theater start crying when he said it. People cried because it is absolutely true. Every child that goes missing. The ones we hear about, and the ones we don’t. The ones kidnapped by strangers, and the ones sold by their own families. The ones raped and violated. The ones harvested for organs. The ones forced to labor in awful conditions. All of these precious ones are God’s Children.

It’s a great line and a noble sentiment – God’s children are not for sale. Only, it isn’t true. As the movie and the world around us make very clear – God’s children are for sale, and we are doing nothing about it. https://orthodoxreflections.com/gods-children-shouldnt-be-for-sale-but-they-are/