That got your attention, didn't it?  I got invited to go to a spring training game at Tempe Diablo stadium yesterday and somewhere around the fifth inning, these three girls sat down behind us.  I didn't pay much attention till two of them headed down to the row in front of us and pretty aggressively approached two college age guys sitting there drinking beer. I thought maybe they were underage and wanted the guys to buy them a drink, but about 10 minutes later they came back up to the other girl.  Then they started talking about their lives. Strippers..well, dancers they said. At the ball park advertising. What they made. Jobs they'd been fired from. Boyfriends who didn't know what they did. Pregnancy. Abortion. 

I wish this story had a happy ending--like I turned around and told them how much God loved them and gave them hope and they were rescued.  But I didn't, they didn't, and it doesn't.  The more I've thought about it, the sadder their stories get.  How much they must hurt behind the facade. How hopeless their lives must feel. How much they just want to be loved...really loved.

I guess you don't have to be a stripper to want that.  I see people every day who I know a lot better than those girls who want the same thing--to be loved for who we are, not for what someone can get from us.  God loves us like that.  We're to love others like that.  When we do, everyone will know that we're followers of Jesus.  When we do.
 


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Nicki Ramsey
03/25/2010 12:50pm

It is truly sad. And now that I've been made more aware of the human sex trafficking problem by my friend from work who is part of the organization "Unchained" so many strippers end up in an even darker more desperate place than just stripping. Many of them are forced to prostitute and/or sold as sex slaves.

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Kelly
03/25/2010 2:56pm

This makes me think about the time I was a......just kidding!
Really this makes me think about all the people that don't “need” God at all. You know that ones that life is a gravy train for a period of time and they love having total control and telling everyone else how great it is and how they don't need some “made up being” to be happy and fulfilled. Those are the people I feel bad for I am surrounded by them in all areas of my life.

There is a Mom that has everything going for her great family, marriage, home and thinks it is okay to have her children call themselves atheists. A happily married couple that raised 2 good boys and thinks just being a good person for the most part is all they need. The friends that say all they need is each other, friends and family is all they need. And the countless people that tell me they are VERY spiritual but they don't NEED to attend a church because organized religion is not there thing.

Those 20 something strippers are probably still having the time of their lives and it might not hit them for years to come but eventually it will. That is IF they are blessed enough to have something horrible happen to bring about that change. We know living without God would be horrible and how empty our lives would be but they just don’t know the freedom it brings. Then there are some that never have the opportunity to "need" God before it is too late that is the real tragedy.

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