 I sit here early Wednesday morning very early thinking and praying for someone that I care very much about. I was actually stirred at just after one with many things on my heart. I knew that I needed to start praying for some folks.The pictures to anyone other than Angie and I would not mean much. For me there is a history that goes back about five years when I met Jennifer. Jennifer is a drug addicted, HIV positive, pregnant prostitute in East Durham. I have seen many different versions of this woman. I have seen her at the worst of her addiction being tormented by the many demons that have filled her over hard telling how many years. I have also seen the loving caring side of her.I have had her come in and tell me parts of scriptures that she had been readying. No matter what, this is my friend and someone that I care much about. I have been on the phone with her mother and her grandmother. This was just because she cares for me and wanted me to get to know her family. So many times I pass this old plastic chair on Angier Avenue to find Jennifer passed out in it. We had stopped by there last night on our way to help someone else out. Jennifer said that she was so hungry and we said that we would pick her up some dinner and be back as soon as we could. We ended up getting her a Church's Chicken dinner with apple pie. When Angie and I took these pictures last night it was just to prove to her that we have gone and picked up food because she was not there when we got back. Most likely a trick had picked her up. |
This is just one of the many things that I see in East Durham that means something even if the person is not there. I wonder if someday this chair will mean a remembrance of Jennifer because she will get killed on these streets like 6 other prostitutes that I have known did. I pray not! I go by the many murder scenes and remember those friends that are no longer here. With Jennifer I wonder often what goes through her troubled head. So much she wants to be loved and accepted. What went on in her life to make her do what she does today? So many other prostitutes and people on the streets of East Durham will "throw stones" at her life. One, because of her being HIV positive. Is this right that she is out there in this condition? Absolutely not! Some will just put it out there that her sin is worst than theirs. Sorry! Sin is sin! There are so many people that want to judge others so harshly but I doubt if they would want the same judgment they are dishing out to be placed on them.
When Angie and I got back to see her not there, we were trying to decide what to do with the food. We decided to leave it in the chair because most likely she would be right back to her spot. Her friend rode up on his bicycle just when we were getting ready to leave and I believe that he would keep her food for her. We hope that she did. We hope that she lives to see another day out there. She is so troubled! Again, many would see a chair with food in it in the picture. There is so, so much more to it. Please pray that Jennifer will be set free of the tormented life she is living. To many including me is seems impossible in our thinking. We do not operate in our thinking or in the IMpossible, we operate in the HIMpossible!
PLEASE KEEP JENNIFER IN YOUR PRAYERS!
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