I'm in love with a stripper.

Today's sermon was about being more practical. A practical Christian. A Christian that doesn't have to "pray" about everything before doing it. Such as comforting someone who is crying, or feeding the poor and hungry. And Pastor Dennis is right. Why do we stop and think about helping another human being in need? Shouldn't it be in our human nature to help and love others? Well Pastor Dennis ended the sermon with a challenge to go help someone in need.

Today at work, a girl came in crying with a big suitcase behind her. She ordered a hot chocolate with whip cream and continued to cry. With teary eyes she looks at me and says "Could you call me a cab, I've had a long day." I couldn't walk away without knowing she was going to be okay. I asked her "is everything alright?" and immediately she pours her heart out to me. I could tell she needed someone to talk to. She then proceeds to tell me that she left her boyfriend of 4 years, and she needs to go back home to her family in Nor cal. She continues to tell me that her boyfriend doesn't have a job, expects her to cook and clean, and she has to pay for everything. She continues to cry and tells me that she works at Vegas as a stripper during the weekend and that she has no one that she knows that lives in So cal. The sad part wasn't that she was stripper, but it was the fact that she had no shoulder to cry on while going through this ordeal with her boyfriend. Everybody needs a shoulder to cry on. How desperate was this girl to vent to someone, that she turned to a stranger for help?

My heart went out to her and so i told her to be strong and that she didn't deserve a guy that treated her like that. I told her she was worth more than that and that she shouldn't have to go through that crap. A man should always provide for the woman, and with that being said i told her good job for leaving him. When you got to go, you got to go, and it has been 4 years too long. I wanted to encourage her as much as possible, because i know leaving a guy that you invested for 4 years is hard to let go. We had a pow wow session and the cab came and i wished her Good luck and then she was gone.

So, i wish the girl the best in life. I hope she got to LAX safely, i hope she was able to find an opening on a flight to Nor cal, and i hope she finds a man worthy of her. Most of all, I hope my words were encouraging enough for her so that she can feel better about the situation and find love again. You go girl.