I’m reminded of an anecdote Lupe shared: “Let’s say there’s a woman and she’s a prostitute. At night, she falls into bed exhausted. As she goes to sleep, she cries, ‘God, help me!’ She wants to be helped. But then she gets up the next morning, she prays, she gets ready for work, and she goes to turn tricks. At the end of the day, she says again, ‘God, help me!’ What is that? Is that a woman who loves God and is crying out? Is that a woman who God is not going to reach out to until she stops sinning?” In a soft maternal voice she answered her own question. “After years of listening to people’s
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