Valuable Lesson Learned
Our conversations started out extremely innocent. We spoke about the books we were reading at the time and the different places around that city that we had yet to visit. We talked about getting a group together of some of the other young people in our new member’s class and were planning a museum trip to explore a new exhibit in town. I’m not exactly sure when our group excursion dwindled down to a one on one day on the town but it happened, and after service one day we were on our way. It seemed pretty standard; we went to a museum, walked around and then headed to dinner.
Over dinner we discussed our life’s goals etc. When we both agreed that we were getting pretty tired we headed to the train on our way to our respective homes. On the train we discussed our next date in which he urged we should watch his favorite movie the following Saturday. It seemed ok with me til I called my older and wiser friend to tell her about the date.My friend pointed out to me a huge missing link in our plans. Where were we going to watch this movie?!
Almost a week passed since I heard from my brother in Christ. He hit me up on Friday to ask if we were still on for our date. I wanted to be cool about the whole thing but still get the plans changed. I told him I was free Saturday evening but that I think we should postpone that particular outing until a later date. Don’t you know he didn’t respond? The next morning, he text me and said something had come up and that we should postpone our “get together”. It went from a date to a get together one text message and a few hours later. I wonder why.
I didn’t respond to his text and as I’m writing this a few weeks later, I haven’t heard from him or seen him at church either.
I usually laugh about these kinds of things, but this didn’t seem like much of a laughing matter. As I’m reflecting I’m so thankful for the insight of my friend. What would have or could have happened had we gone to his house or my house to watch that movie. I think I let my guard down because I met him at church and he seemed like such a nice guy. This however taught me a very valuable lesson. It doesn’t matter where you meet him, creepers lurk everywhere.
Guess everyone in church ain’t saved. Signed, A NappyBrownGirl