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Nothing But Love and Cookies

For 18 years I have gone to the strip clubs delivering mainly cookies and little gifts for the employees. Why?  That has multiple layers to the answer.  The first being that around three years before I went I visited a church where a "prophetic team" made up of people I had never met in my life asked me to come to a room where they could deliver a message to me from God.  😳 Trust me when I tell you that I kinda throught they were full of it. They told me that I would be going to bars to tell people about Jesus. I was being polite at the time, but if I could have told them what I thought, I would have informed them that there seriously mistaken because although I am not afraid of sharing my faith with people, I don't like to do it in a public/pressuring way. There would be no way I would ever walk in a bar and start declaring Jesus Christ is Lord.  I've just always been turned off by what I felt like were manipulative ways to get people to pray the sinners prayer so ...
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Pandemic Growth

 Today I am going to a friend's house to give a pep talk to a friend's daughter because she is being bullied at school and doesn't want to go to school.  I have experience with being bullied and when I became a teacher I absolutely didn't allow any bullying. I knew the life long scars it causes.  Schools in the past were horrible about helping kids who are being bullied, so I made sure that it was dealt with. One time I even drove to a bus stop to deal with it. Kids in my 6th grade class would bring me students that weren't even in my class that were being bullied to get help and I helped everyone and in every single situation I put a stop to it.  My daughter was bullied for 2 years and refused to let me report it until it became unbearable and the school did put a stop to it.  But today I hope to leave this child's house giving her the mindset to embrace this scary and bad situation as an opportunity to grow and even change because of the trauma she is experien...
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Crumb Eater Explained

Matthew 15:27 "It is not right to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs." She said, "Yes Lord, yet even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their masters' table." I have always related to this verse. In the story Jesus was approached by a woman who was not Jewish, like He was. She was begging for Him to heal her daughter but He would not answer her. His disciples were irritated by her and asked him to send her away. Jesus told them that He came for the Jews, and not her.  I can't say I completely understand the deep theological meaning of this passage, I can only speak to what it says to me personally.  The woman was a Canaanite and Jews had great contempt for them.  Even though I have gone to church throughout my life and been a believer since I was a child, I have felt contempt from the church.  Now, don't get me wrong, I didn't feel contempt all the time, I have come across some of the best people in the church, but when someth...
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