The Journey of a Girl

Once upon a time, there was a 15 year old Christian girl named Jessica. Now this girl had a dream. She was going to begin dating a Christian boy when she was 16 and then marry that boy and they would live happily ever after together. Jessica thought that her dream was ideal and perfectly possible. But she overlooked a couple of details...

1. God was in control.

2. She had to wait for a good Christian boy to ask her out.

Now fast forward to the Summer. Jessica made a good guy friend. Her first close guy friend, in fact. He treated her like all her friends treated her. They texted each other, saw each other at church, and even began phoning each other while Jessica was babysitting. Jessica got to know this guy pretty well and she shared a lot of deep emotional things with him and he shared back equally. This attention that Jessica was getting thrilled her, she was floored that this guy would want to be her friend and spend so much time chatting with her. In fact, Jessica spent so much time chatting with and texting this guy that her parents began to wonder about this friendship. They suggested that Jessica stop using her phone to communicate with this guy for awhile. She really did not like that idea and neither did the guy but they listened...for only two weeks and then they were back at it full force. By this time Jessica was 16 and things got really deep and this guy soon wanted to date Jessica, but when he asked her Dad...

Jessica did not really know the details of what happened but she was soon in tears hearing the apologies of this guy who was once one of her closest friends. She never saw him again after that...

Jessica's dream came crashing down and as she finished high school at age 17 and headed off to Bible College, she was determined to chase after God and guys would not get in her way. She did not think God wanted her to have a boyfriend for a long time anyways.

During her first year Jessica got to know lots of great people and even had a few good guy friends whom she was determined to treat as her brothers in Christ and nothing more. Yes, she was liked by a couple of guys but she was not ready for a serious relationship and she only saw these guys as solid brothers in Christ (and she still does). She found herself quite distracted from God by a few guys and she was determined to change that for her second year.

Jessica wanted to make sure that she avoided being distracted by guys during her second year. She wanted to be like her mentor back at home, do two years of Bible school, then become a Registered Nurse and then God would maybe provide a husband. This plan Jessica didn’t mind so much since her mentor was a very godly woman; she was happy to follow in her footsteps. Little did Jessica know that God was going to change her plan.

Yup, within the first month of her second year of Bible school Jessica was unexpectedly distracted by a certain godly blue eyed blonde guy named Matthew. The weirdest part was that she was not sure where her feelings were coming from. After talking to a couple of good friends, Jessica decided to try and get to know Matthew as a friend by making small talk, asking him about his homework and hanging out in the same friend group.

The middle part is complicated because of a lot of mixed emotions and figuring stuff out but the end result was that Matthew ended up asking Jessica to be his girlfriend and she said yes!

Things have not been easy for Jessica and Matthew but they are trusting God and slowly (and joyfully) getting to know each other day by day. Things did not work out the way that Jessica dreamed but she is very glad for God’s work, her current relationship was worth the wait. 

Of fear and little brothers...Part 2

Now here is the story of my revenge... :)
About 6 years after being scared out of my mind because my little brother decided to jump out of my closet, I found an opportunity to get him back.

One hot Summer afternoon at about 1:45pm, I got home from work at Canadian Tire. Usually I would get home at about 2:30pm but I just happened to be early that day. When I arrived home, I noted that both of my parent's vehicles were gone, which suggested that nobody was home. So when I opened the front door and walked in, I automatically assumed that I was the only person in the house. That's when I heard my three brothers' voices coming from the basement. Here's what I heard...

Alexander (13) "You guys quiet! I think I heard the front door!"
Landon (7) "Yeah Daniel! Shhh!"
Daniel (4) "Heeheehee"

As soon as I heard that Alexander didn't know who was home, I quickly formulated a plan to scare him. I could only imagine what must have been going through his mind. He had always been a very cautious babysitter and I could almost hear his thoughts...Oh no! I swear I heard the front door but usually I can tell who it is but not this time. Why are they being so quiet? Oh no! It must be a theif or a murderer! But I am responsible, I have to protect Landon and Daniel but they're being too loud, the guy upstairs is going to find us for sure, I have to get them to be quiet somehow! I hustled down into the family room and peered down the basement stairs through the open door, the boys were playing video games and so I snatched my opportunity to hide myself behind the basement door and peeked through the crack in between the door and the doorframe.

Alexander was still frantically yelling to get the boys quiet...

Alexander "Can you guys just be quiet for like one second while I look upstairs? I need to check if someone's here so shut up!
Landon and Daniel "Ok!"

As he began to slowly climb the basement stairs my dog Maggie decided to come and start sniffing at my feet, Alexander was almost all the way up when I kicked my foot at her and she began to back up and bark.

That did it, Alexander got freaked right out and began yelling at Landon and Daniel and soon all three boys were up those basement stairs, up the upstairs stairs, and locked in the upstairs bathroom.

I snuck upstairs to hear what was going on, holding back laughter the entire time as I heard...

Landon "What's going on?"
Alexander "Shhh!"
Daniel "Why are we hiding?"
Alexander "Shhh!
Landon "But who's here?"
Alexander "Landon! Don't you know how to shut up!? I don't know who's here but if you keep talking...do you want to be killed!? Shhh!"

I couldn't take it any longer, but for some added fun I banged on the bathroom door a few times before I proceeded to walk downstairs and plop down on the couch.

Literally about two minutes after I sat down, my Mom came home and said her usual "Hello!" as she came in. The boys heard her voice and immediately came out of their hiding spot to tell her what had happened. As soon as Alexander saw me he turned red with fury and could only say, "You!"

So I think I got even with Alexander pretty good after the closet incident. I don't think he can outdo me now ;).