Lovely Street Sisters

Love is social justice mixed with mercy and favor. Like hurricane Irma became the reset button to my island of Puerto Rico, the shining star of the Caribbean sea. Our local government and Capitol Hill need a LOVE Hurricane to reset the thinking patterns of the officials. Be aware I am going to exercise my first amendment right. The same amendment that pimps and drug dealers in ghettos, government offices, and websites like Backpage, utilize to justify and operate their highly sophisticated criminal activities locally, nationally and internationally. They are FREE this Thanksgiving at the expense of their human capital called human trafficking victims. As a modern day abolitionist I ask myself the question "Why are so many bills being written against human trafficking instead of enforcing the 13th amendment that abolished slavery in 1865? Seriously, it takes trillions of dollars to write bills and people sit in their offices on tax payers money to argue about everything in Capitol Hill.
Lately, the media is posting sexual harassment claims from the past and current. Have you ever wonder why is  Human Trafficking and the Opiate addiction Crisis has gotten worst?
Hyper-sexual politicians, police officers,  reporters, movie directors and addicts have the same defect on their mid-brain they lack the neural transmitter, Dopamine. They are looking for a quick fix. Their fore-brain called the thinking brain is defected. They lack common sense and empathy to the lives that die and they abuse. Married or single people are not sexual objects. My lovely street sisters are daughters, mothers, aunts, cousins and even grandmothers. My transgender family are victimized. As a public health nurse I am limited. I feel I am losing the war at times. I am grateful for the board members, trench workers in offices and on the streets. Angie and Tonya from AIDS Healthcare Foundation who freely supply me condoms and health checks for my street family. Bailey a licensed social worker at the Columbus Health Department who supplies me with the female condoms. I can't ignore the situation and the volunteers know not to judge me. Every life matters here in the United States and abroad.
I am seeing more children out on the streets being victimized less than 5 miles from the government buildings.  They are innocent. They do anything to survive. Do you know how many times I have been tempted to load them up in the Love Bug? As a licensed medical professional I can be charged with kidnapping while the pimps kidnap children all the time. If I had the funds I would love to have a boarding school where trench workers become their blended family. Utopian thought here in America. However, I have seen villages abroad who take care of their children with NO money. Abandoned monasteries have purposeful use. What about if someone donates an abandon school or church building to 1DivineLine2Health? Traumatized children need a conducive setting to learn where everyone comes from similar backgrounds. No more bullying because their parents are addicts or street walkers. The Educators, Counselors, Teachers, Therapists, Nurse and Principal are compassionate to the children. A place where children are taught survival skills and allow them to explore the world with their five senses. How amazing it would be for these American kids in city jungles to have a chance to meet my kids abroad in tropical jungles? Keep dreaming with me ANYTHING is POSSIBLE in this blog. Children learn to eat healthy meals and learn motor skill coordination techniques by different physical activities. Everyday, team building activities take place and different types of leaders are born. A school where specialized sensory room is accessible on each floor so when a child is having a bad day a counselor can spend the TLC needed to teach him/her it is OK to talk and act out their feelings without hurting others. ALL Children are resilient and maybe we can learn from them.
Research has proven that abuse damages brain cells. What about if we can have good stimulus to generate brain cells through Love. As a result, we stop children from believing that the dark world of violence is their only future. Children need to be enlightened and cared for in a healthy environment. It is evident homeless children in pain have a final outcome the gang life and be introduced to the opiate world that hijacks their brain. Today lies another young lady in a local hospital ICU bed, brain dead. The family hasn't made the decision to take her off life support all due to an opiate overdose after relapsing. She will leave behind a six year old and her mom to raise him.

I am not fond about American politics. I know there is a remnant in government offices that is for the people and go through so much red tape to get their agenda heard and implemented. Similarly, to the trench workers who voluntarily exposed themselves to all sort of dangers in jungles of the inner city and suburbs as they work with those enslaved to drugs, prostitution and other kinds of criminal activities. There's HOPE and that's my DOPE! There are a few good men who still know how to treat women with love and respect despite the situation there in. They are ordinary men who see 1DIVINELINE2HEALTH meeting the needs of the lovely street sisters, their children and people suffering. Their support help us be consistent with the services to victims and survivors we serve. Our interaction develops trust, respect and entrance to the world of those who are hurting. We have had a few rescues this year and hoping for some more before the year ends. Unfortunately, there is no detox place in Columbus that accepts the so many trafficked women with children. This breaks my heart! Our system takes over two hours at the point you contact the national human trafficking hotline in DC and they transfer you to the homeless hotline who lack customer service and ask you if  the victim is homicidal or suicidal to be transferred to Netcare. If the answer is no they are put on a waiting list for a shelter and the victim is still homeless.

Sister Nadine 

Confession: Everyone thinks what Sister Nadine and other trench workers do is rewarding. Let us be honest, IT IS NOT REWARDING! It is MENTALLY, PHYSICALLY, SPIRITUALLY, & EMOTIONALLY EXHAUSTING! What is so rewarding to see in Columbus, Ohio homeless children living in abandoned houses; a woman released from Jackson Pike Correction facility almost naked and it's 20 degrees outside running to the Love Drop-In for food and clothes on Thanksgiving eve? Trench workers have countless stories including those of our veterans in homeless camps. People die in abandoned houses & morgues filled to capacity. As a nurse in the trenches I stay within my scopes of practice. I need to react to public health hazards and my care plan is 1.5 pages. It is simple and cost effective. It does not call for the duplication of services but for the utilization of the system to come and serve where the need is via the LOVE DEPOT. A base where trench workers who are indigenous leaders work with victims, survivors, health and public officials to eradicate the opiate addiction and human trafficking epidemic. A place that Thanksgiving is an expression of gratitude on behalf of those who serve and are being served. A place where every day the golden rule is the ABSOLUTE rule.

The golden rule was practiced by the Native Americans that is the real story about Thanksgiving. They saved the Pilgrims. They clothed, fed and healed those that were sick through compassion. They shared their goods and had no money. They did not charge the British for their services. In return what did they received from the British? Nowadays, Native Americans live in reservation camps almost extinct and their America has been taken over by foreigners. Indigenous leaders acknowledge human beings have TWO primordial emotions that drive their behaviors. Do you know what they are? LOVE and FEAR. Corrupt leaders exist in all systems and have an opiate called money. They use FEAR as a weapon to victimize people. Compassionate people are driven by LOVE. They know the power of the tribe! Their opiate is Love which releases the neural transmitter DOPAMINE that make them feel good and those they serve. My abroad experiences continue to mold me and I choose to live by the comrade code love God first and then EVERYBODY. I have no fear to walk and drive in the alleys and streets and walk into the homeless camps that the cops fear. I only have my 66 magnum in my heart, taser and pepper spray and a few two legged angels and invisible angelic beings protecting me and the comrades.

Vanessa Brown, Board Member and Steve Fletcher

This week three special men came to 1divineline2health rescue. Steve Fletcher, trench workers, CEO of Matthew 25:35 donated a small lot on the Hilltop to the organization after I told him my dream. I will need capital to build. It will be a piece of heaven on earth where butterflies gather. Steve has an amazing story he has been sober for a while. His wife, Lana is long suffering as they struggle with their son who is battling addiction. Love can heal families and teaches resilience to the hurting.

Craig & Rich

Turkey Kits

This Thanksgiving two gym buddies, Rich and Craig decided to select 1DIVINELINE2HEALTH as their public charity than the popular ones. I knew of several lovely street sisters that had children and no money for the meal. They broke a record being in the Love Drop-In center for two hours. I had the opportunity to see where they live. They were astonished when I told them it was two married men who prepared the Turkey Kits. They were grateful even the girls that had no family would be spending Thanksgiving day with other sisters. My Lovely Street Sisters taught me Love is transformational. Truly it can change people's behaviors even if it is for a night and day they stopped tricking and tripping in the power of LOVE. The turkey kits prepared was tangible love for the Lovely Street Sisters. Thanksgiving is the expression of an attitude of gratitude. The butterfly effect from these two gentlemen who are my gym buddies and the meals cooked by the volunteers at the Love Drop-In Centers transformed the Street Sisters this Thanksgiving. They cried after receiving the turkey kit and they ended the night expressing their Thanksgiving prayer when they said "Thank you and I love you!"  I conclude this blog with my LOVELY STREET SISTERS prayer to you and your family on behalf of the trench workers in this charitable season THANK YOU and WE LOVE YOU!