Have You Complained About Your Life During This Holiday Season?

Have you been complaining this Holiday season about how things are not good for you? Have you been complaining about gifts or money or things just not being the way that you want them for yourself. Let me tell you a little story that will most likely make you feel pretty good about your life and situation.

I just came across this picture this morning never knowing how much it would mean to me later in this day. The hand I looked at today as I sat across from a heroin addicted prostitute in the McDonald's in the Village had a similar story. The hand that I can not get out of my head was covered with needle scars and recent marks from plunging a heroin needle into it. It had scabs that she later showed me were all over her arms. She told me of how she attempted to get help recently but because of the green puss and blood oozing from the wounds they would not let her in. She also has hepatitis C. I had to ask her for her clothes sizes so I could get them to Dean & Melissa Padgett who are going to assist me in working with her. She wears a size 3 pant and she said that she is getting smaller every day. She is so tiny! She said that she goes days without eating. When we entered McDonald's I told her to order whatever she wanted. She ate the McNuggets like they were a big steak. She asked me if I would mind if she had an ice coffee too wish I again told her it was anything she wanted. Another prostitute had come in and started drinking from her ice coffee and eating her food which she seemed to not mind. It a phone call from her this evening I learned that the other prostitute had stolen the two gift cards that I had given her for later. She then went out trying to sell them to get drugs. Needless to say that prostitute will get nothing in the future until she is ready to make some changes. I had told her earlier that she had to have a signed church bulletin from Pastor Fitzpatrick of One Love Ministries to get any further food.

I am not going to give a name on this woman for several reasons. How this all started was one day about a month ago I saw her on the streets and asked her if she wanted help. Her response was that she loved getting high and did not want to waste my time. I was surprised at that response but also appreciated her honesty. She had left a message on my phone while I was visiting with friends today. She was crying and calling out for help. She told me how she had lost my card and that she had to pay another prostitute for my number. How sad is that? I know who charged her and I will deal with that later.

It was so sad to hear her story as she told me of being an addict coming into this world because of her mother being addicted. She told me of being molested not by males but by females. At the age 3 she had a curling iron stuck up her and this abuse continued by the females for years. She told me of her mother saying that from the time she came out of her womb that she had done nothing but mess up her mother's life. Now her mother expects her to prostitute herself so that she can support her prescription drug addiction. Her mother has told her that she wishes she would die. Her father shacks up with another Holloway prostitute and he is an alcoholic. The only clothes that she has on the ones on her back. She told me of having to go into the bathroom after the different "johns (perverts)" to wash her underwear. Tonight (Christmas Eve) she will sleep in an abandoned house. I know many tonight that are in the same position. My heart breaks for them!

Now, do you think that you have a bad life? Did you have a bad day? Did something not go right with the Christmas Eve dinner? Are you not satisfied with the Christmas that lies ahead for you and your family tomorrow?

Because of family coming in from out of town that she has let down in the past she will not go into rehab until after the 1st of the year. I hope to talk her out of that so that she can get the help that she needs. I do not know how she can live that much longer in the condition she is in.

I think we all need to look at how blessed we really are. We need to look at those love ones that we have around us and not take them for granted. As I have said before, if you are married you need to love your spouse as though you will not have them tomorrow. Think about the times that you do not treat those you love right then if something happened to them and you did not have the chance to make that situation right. I am thankful that there was nothing left unsettled between Eileen and I. I was not perfect but I tried my best to treat her as a queen. I am so sensitive today to seeing couples disrespect each other. I seem to see it alot now and more times than not I say something to them. Treasure your spouse and treasure your loves ones. Do not take things for granted. I know a woman laying in an abandoned house right now that would love to have your life!

Merry Christmas!