When i starting working at Max & Erma’s, a resturant where i live, i didnt know that i would be there for over two years. I wanted a job i would make enough that i could go to school full time and work part time but still have enough money to live on. Many people work at resturants because the money is good, the hours a very flexable, and you dont have to do back breaking work. Little did i know what i was getting myself into.
If you have ever worked at a resturant you know that it can be a very dark place. it seems like everybody sleeps with everybody, people come in still drunk or with hangovers very often, and many girls wind up pregnant or already have kids. Im not knocking the people that i work with, i mean i love them to death but its hard sometimes when your the only christian to stand your ground.
Before i starting working there i was a nanny for three little girls. :By the end of that i knew that it wasnt where God wanted me, he wanted me to do so much more. Then i ended up getting a job at my resturant. It was really hard to transittion from nanny life to working at a fast paced resturant but people were really nice and made me feel welcome. We were like a big family.
At first they tried to conform me to there ways. They tried to get me to go out and get drinks with them or guys would invited me over but i always told them that i wasnt old enough to drink legally and that i wasnt interested in “getting to know” the guys. After i stood up for what i believed people starting noticing something different about me. They would ask me why i was the way i was and why i didnt drink and why i didnt have sex. I told them that about where i stood and how my relationship with the lord was the most important thing to me.
Its been two year of constant persucution. People i work with make fun of me all the time. Im not allowed to have a bad day or be in a bad mood or im constantly watch all day, like the what will Jessie do wrong today kind of thing. When new people start working my coworkers always say,”Thats Jessie shes a good christian girl she doesnt do anything wrong”. which isnt true at all and they think im some kind of boring, no fun kind of person.
Every day i try to keep a good attitude and always have a smile on my face. God has given me amazing joy that i wouldnt have if it wasnt for him. I used to be really hurt when i would get made fun of or i would just get mad but now i smile because i know im giving God glory and i know he is my strenghth in those hard times. I know he has put me serving at Max & Ermas for a reason. He is using me to be a light to the darkness.
2 Corinthians 12:10
That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am stronLight
