#12 – Three wooden crosses

Usually, when a holy roller approaches me and starts to preach, I get irritated.

Monday night at the gym was different. I’ve seen this woman in there quite a bit since I started going and as I was finishing on the ab machine for the night she approached me.

She said simply that she’s noticed how much work I’ve done and how religiously I’ve gone and she thinks it’s wonderful. She told me that I’m a beautiful woman but doing something for myself with such great determination will only make me more beautiful, and if a man is the reason I’m there, eff him because he doesn’t deserve me and the only person who deserves my efforts is me.

I was greatly appreciative of her comments, and then of course she told me that “besides! the Bible says that I should take no other husband but Jesus Christ.”

That’s where she lost me a bit.

I’m all for offering kind words, but please brothers and sisters – find out what faith a person is before you start preaching, your message may be lost completely.

As I said though, I wasn’t really annoyed, but she did lose me at that point. I didn’t argue or offer that I’m not into organized religion or any of that. I just listened because when someone offers you kind words in what seems to be the true Christian spirit, it’s hard to be annoyed.