"Then toward the end of February 2008 it happened. I was loving on God, wanting to find a college and move out of Johnstown, and become a missionary. It sounded like a great plan to me. However, in the mix of things, the strangest thing happened. I started having feelings for Brad. You may be reading this thinking…uhm okay? It’s normal for a girl to feel that way about a man. But I need you to understand, I was seventeen, almost eighteen, he was twenty one and played a pretty big role of leadership for the youth, basically, I started to have feelings for my youth leader. This also might not sound so strange a lot of girls become attracted to their youth pastors. This somehow felt completely different. I had never thought of Brad in that light. I started going to youth group on and off when I was fifteen so we had known each other for about three years. He just was Brad to me. A man who loved Jesus and cowboy boots. Cool. But to like him like him? Was I crazy?
...Eventually I had made up my mind that the feelings were from Satan and tried to dismiss them. I mean come on it was Brad. Being in a relationship with him would mess everything up. Besides, I was almost positive that my friend had a thing for him. She played guitar, he played guitar they both liked to sing, they both loved Jesus, seemed perfect. After all the last thing I needed was a man."
So in the end we all know how it turned out. Thank God for that! :-)
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