This Bruce Jenner business really has me thinking. . .

But maybe not in the way Vanity Fair seems to want me to.

I get that the cover was meant to - and did - start a national conversation.

My Facebook blew up with posts and articles and debates about Bruce/Caitlyn.

Anyone who knows me knows that is physically impossible for me not to have an opinion on this or any other matter but I'm not going to express it here.

Because, big picture, it doesn't matter.

Earlier this week, before all this took over our newsfeed, I started a post that I hadn't finished.

I was really upset because I read a quote from President Obama, in which he said he doesn't think we are losing the fight against ISIS.

Let me quickly say that I personally like him a lot. This will not be one of those anti-president type rants that I am seeing around the interweb.

However, that statement bothered me terribly.

See, a few weeks ago I read a piece from Ann Voskamp about what is happening to women and children in Iraq when ISIS takes over.

Husbands murdered, young girls raped and brutalized, people starving, mothers having to choose which children to leave behind. . .

I cried when I read it and it has haunted me since then.

I encourage you to as well because I think it's important that we all know the truth about what is happening to these people:

http://www.aholyexperience.com/2015/05/into-iraq-2-what-the-news-isnt-telling-you-why-we-cant-afford-to-pretend-its-not-happening-sozans-impossible-choice-and-our-very-possible-one/

This rips my guts out.

And then came the news that ISIS took another city.

So I wonder how it is that we aren't losing fight against them.

Is it because it isn't happening to Americans? I certainly hope that isn't what was meant but it is what it sounds like.

And all of this horror just * POOF! * leaves our attention because Vanity Fair has a sensational new cover.

I know it's easy to get drawn in to the newest story and I'm not saying paying attention to what's going on around us is a bad thing.

But this:

This is much bigger.

This number includes victims of forced labor and sex trafficking.

If you read the link above, you saw that ISIS is selling nine year old girls for $100 to any man that wants them.

Many churches, including ours, partner with A21 and they do some amazing work.

They posted this yesterday:

15 people were rescued in one week internationally.

That is wonderful but with 27 million enslaved obviously much more help is needed.

So, again, does what Bruce is up to or what Vanity Fair is running this week really matter?

I don't think so.

I wish more than anything to see just a little of that attention and energy directed toward those who desperately need our help, our love, and our prayers.