Peter & WIGGLES
by Robin
I have this totally funny story to share with you. In our county, we have a lot of Gentlemen's Club establishments. I'm not fond of these places but I've decided to pray for them as I pass by them. Well, the other day, Andrew overheard me praying for one. He asked why and I gave him a simplified reason of how it was sinful for women to dance nude and they get paid for it, etc. That whole conversation stuck in his mind. So today, we had business on the island and passed by another establishment called Wiggles. (I would love to keep it anonymous but it pertains to the story.) Andrew asked me if I was going to pray for it. Simon Peter was totally in the dark about what was going on. In a matter of seconds, Andrew brought him up to speed, even pointing out the lack of windows & dancing girl silhouettes on the sign.
You would have thought a bomb dropped because Simon Peter was entirely speechless. Come to find out, he'd seen the sign many times and thought it was a place to buy wigs. He thought the ladies on the sign were holding their heads to try on new wigs and didn't give much thought to their legs being shoulder-width apart & in heels. It never once occurred to him it was a dancing position.
Ahhhhh, the beauty of an innocent mind. I'm just so sorry that they have to grow up and understand that we live in a very fallen world, filled with sin & corruption. I was reading 1 Peter 1: 3,4 earlier today and it addresses the difference between heaven and earth. Oh what a blessed day it will be once we're in heaven.
1 Peter 1:3, 4
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
who according to His abundant mercy
has begotten us again to a living hope
through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled
and that does not fade away,
reserved in heaven for you,
who are kept by the power of God through faith for salvation
ready to be revealed in the last time.
2 comments:
This is funny that you posted this this week. Yesterday, hubby and I were going to dinner with friends at a restaurant he had never been to before. It has lots of dark-wood-and-leather, so I said "You'll like it. It looks like a gentleman's club."
He stammered, "I don't think that means what you think it does."
And I said "I refuse to refer to those as 'gentlemen's clubs', because not a single gentleman would set foot in there. I'm talking about hunting lodges and the like."
I don't know what they SHOULD be called, but it certainly seems' like gentlemen's clubs is inaccurate!
I, too am sorry that the boys have to grow up and learn about these things, but at least you are setting a good example for them, even when you have to teach them something like that.
Those places just make me sad. I think of the women (and men) who are so desperate or who actually want to do that kind of thing with their bodies and it just breaks my heart. Good idea on praying for them when reminded.
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