The other night I was walking home from having dinner with a woman who has been coming to our Bible study. I passed a group of young teenage guys, and as I walked by them, one of them commented on my figure, and I heard him ask if I would like to have sex. My heart sank, and I felt sick inside. I kept walking on, but my head was swirling. What kind of environment have these kids grown up in that they think it's okay to treat a woman like that? They are SO young, and regardless of that, they should not be saying those things. Why do they look at a woman and immediately think that? There is so much more to me than what's on the outside. Are they growing up learning that that's what women are for? To be used and put aside? By the time I got into my apartment, I was so confused and probably kind of angry. I ended up going back outside and confronting the kids, after I had cooled off a bit and prayed. They just said the same thing that they had before, laughing and trying to impress eachother. And I walked back into my flat and immediately remembered a friend who grew up in a similar environment as them, who came from a really broken family situation, and who was really angry at the world. But when he was 16, he began to start asking questions and searching, and opened up a Bible and committed his life to Jesus. Now he's preaching and discipling his fellow Brits in London. So I began to pray that God would do a similar redeeming work in those boys' lives, and every time I look out the window and see them playing out on the pitch, I'm going to commit to praying that they grow up to be men of integrity and humility, who are like Jeremiah with hearts on fire for the Lord and His work in London. I wonder if anyone has ever prayed for them before.