Lessons I Learned From the Strip Club #2

Tonight I am thinking about our Tub Team. Our wonderful Tub Team. Every time we go in to the club we bring this tub with us. It is, as Natalie put it, like a perfect diaper bag. We can toss everything in it at the end of the night and know that the Tub Team will restock and reorganize the tub for next time. It has everything we could need. Clorox wipes, plates and napkins, a table cloth, first aid supplies, serving utensils and heart shaped post-it notes, even glittery butterflies to hang from the Miller High Life sign.

I always feel so well prepared, so organized and put together when we walk in. I feel as though we are ready for anything! If a dancer trips and hurts her ankle we can come to her aid! If someone wants to take food home to their grandma we are ready to make them up to go boxes! We have notepads and sanitizer and mints to pass out for garlic breath.

So I walk in feeling like all our bases are covered because we have EVERYTHING. But there is nothing in the tub for when a girl says "I miscarried the baby and lost my job and that's why I'm here". I want to rush to that tub and pull out the perfect band aid to fix it. But we can't prepare for everything and even if we could prepare for this I'm not sure what would fix it. So we sit in quiet and awkward silence. We offer ourselves, our sympathies, maybe a prayer, and the hope of Christ and a better tomorrow.

We prepare for everything. We stock our pantries with food for the week. We pack diaper bags and hoard useless items "just in case we might need them". We carry purses that weigh 10 pounds just because we never know what will happen. And if you're like me, you buy 3 bottles of lotion because you want to be prepared when you run out of the first bottle. We do everything we can to avoid emergencies and disasters. But sometimes the bottom falls out, we lose the baby, our bodies fail us and we get sick, the bills and paychecks don't match up and we feel so helpless. There are things we can't prepare for. That's when all we have for certain is Christ and if we are blessed, a friend to sit in awkward silence with us.