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Fritzpw_Admin -> Were you friends before you became romantic? (10/21/2009 2:35:22 PM)
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When the Expected Arrives - Part 4
Hudson Russell Davis - Crosswalk.com Contributing Writer
It is impossible to calculate the number of hours spent waiting, longing, hoping, and dreaming of the day when love would walk up to me and take my hand.
I have imagined many scenarios in which I find that person before whom I melt and to whom I am a hero. I have written poems of tribute to a nameless, faceless, person whom I hoped would not tarry this long. I have even, at times, put down as lost the hope that seemed so haggard.
It seems like only yesterday I wrote of that "longing like starvation" and reminded myself—and those who would listen—that "time is not my enemy and waiting is not punishment." I said this because within me beats a heart like all other hearts, trained in a world that associates doing good with reward. It seemed to me, as well as to many others, that I was doing good, and quite honestly—I wanted my reward.
The delay felt like punishment, and each day felt like extended animosity.
It seems like only yesterday that I made my confession of longing and admitted that, come what may, my life was given to the Lord who called me to Himself. It is only proper that, despite our longing and hope we keep a proper perspective on all that we do have and what is promised after all this passes away. I cannot help but share the pain and sorrow felt by each single who cannot seem to answer the questions asked by well meaning friends and family, "Why are you still single?" And it makes me wonder if they can answer with any confidence, to my liking, why they are married.
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My expected has arrived—but I did not expect her.
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Were you friends before you became romantic?
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