As to the success of A21, Caine quickly gives credit to the contributions of thousands of partners enabling them to see someone rescued every day, and their traffickers put in jail. “That’s actually who the heroes of A21 are. It’s those people that go, ‘I can’t do everything but I can do one thing and I’m going to do one thing’.
Caine and Weidmann share experiences with thyroid cancer diagnoses. In the podcast, Wiedmann notes that she is especially drawn to Caine’s views regarding fear and the unexpected events that can throw your world into chaos and test your faith.
Caine’s new book, Unexpected, talks about why people, (specifically women), experience fear in regard to the things that we don’t expect and result in scary situations.
Caine explains that for her, the fight was not against cancer, it was against fear.
“Everything continues, and you know, I’ve got two hundred staff around the world, I’m running all of that,” she said. “You go, okay well you know I just got this devastating news, but it didn’t stop everything else.”
As a result of her diagnosis, Caine got into the Word in a whole new way, finding herself using a Bible app three times a day declaring scriptures to keep her head from going down a negative track.
“The enemy has always been after our faith and that’s why, you know, scripture says that we’ve got to fight the good fight of faith,” Caine said. “So, the fear makes you not operate in faith because you just shut down, fear makes you pull back, fear makes you go, ‘I’m not good enough.’”
As parents in the twenty first century, with the internet and social media, Caine and Wiedmann believe understanding what fear is and what you can do to counteract it for God’s glory, is fundamental in how you approach parenting.
“I think it’s major because there’s so much fear in the world today, Caine said. “I think there’s so much instability, so much chaos, world events I mean you know there’s just, there’s so much terror, there’s so much crime, there’s so much violence.”
That’s why, in part, Caine feels the basic message of her book, Unexpected, is, “even though the world and your friends and everyone around you is going cray-cray, you don’t have to.”
The book explains that many times unexpected to us is not unexpected to God. Because He is sovereign, and He is good, what is revealed to us is what we think of God. If you believe that God is good, then even whatever you’re going through is not good, God will work it out for your good. He is trying to teach you something through it, He wants you to grow.
When something unexpected happens, rather than thinking God has forsaken us, He trying to get you to discover more of Him.
And, in a final piece of advice to young girls who may be listening, “Be unoffendable,” said Caine. “Like don’t hold on to offense, let it go. So in the words of Taylor Swift, learn to shake it off.”
