Once Upon a Time... Part One
Once upon a time, in a land not too far away (Central Wisconsin, in fact), there lived a girl who had experienced many things in the year 2007. This is her year (and her story) in concise form. This will update this blog... with the purpose of glorifying God's wonderful name, for He has done marvelous things!!
It was December 10th, 2006-- the date of the annual Christmas program at Faith Baptist Church/ Faith Christian Academy. It was promised to be a fun, entertaining, and God-glorifying program. We had prepared for weeks, and finally, we were on stage!! I had been on stage pretty much all evening playing the piano, but I hadn't seen who was in the audience until right before the drama, when I stood up to sing a song with 3 of my friends. I stood on stage with a smile on my face and scanned the audience. Yes, I knew most of those faces. Suddenly, my smile froze in place and I felt my heart doing odd thumpings-- an unexpected reaction to seeing that familiar face. Familiar face it was... the face of a long-time friend... the face of my best guy friend. He had come. He had come all the way from Madison... just to see our play... to see ME. The rest of the evening was... interesting. He and I chatted with my parents, and he hung around to chat for a while. He gave me my very first college graduation card-- he had remembered that I had just finished college. He gave me a hug, and then he left.
The confusion and turmoil I felt was completely unexpected and completely unreasonable. I spent a good portion of the evening chatting with Verity and Sara in the bathroom (typical girl meeting place :-) ). I proceeded to list all of the reasons why I could never, ever be interested romantically in this friend of mine. Then Verity asked, "If God asked you to date him and marry him, would you be willing to?" Without hesitation I replied, "No!" My good friends then assured me that I needed to take that to God... because I was absolutely refusing to surrender that to Him. They promised to keep me accountable and ask me eventually if I had surrendered to God. Well, I finally did... and in the back of my mind I thought, "If I surrender this to God, then God won't ask me to do it! He just wants me to surrender."
Oh, Chanda Panda... if only you knew what was ahead in the coming days.... :-)
To be continued.... :-)
It was December 10th, 2006-- the date of the annual Christmas program at Faith Baptist Church/ Faith Christian Academy. It was promised to be a fun, entertaining, and God-glorifying program. We had prepared for weeks, and finally, we were on stage!! I had been on stage pretty much all evening playing the piano, but I hadn't seen who was in the audience until right before the drama, when I stood up to sing a song with 3 of my friends. I stood on stage with a smile on my face and scanned the audience. Yes, I knew most of those faces. Suddenly, my smile froze in place and I felt my heart doing odd thumpings-- an unexpected reaction to seeing that familiar face. Familiar face it was... the face of a long-time friend... the face of my best guy friend. He had come. He had come all the way from Madison... just to see our play... to see ME. The rest of the evening was... interesting. He and I chatted with my parents, and he hung around to chat for a while. He gave me my very first college graduation card-- he had remembered that I had just finished college. He gave me a hug, and then he left.
The confusion and turmoil I felt was completely unexpected and completely unreasonable. I spent a good portion of the evening chatting with Verity and Sara in the bathroom (typical girl meeting place :-) ). I proceeded to list all of the reasons why I could never, ever be interested romantically in this friend of mine. Then Verity asked, "If God asked you to date him and marry him, would you be willing to?" Without hesitation I replied, "No!" My good friends then assured me that I needed to take that to God... because I was absolutely refusing to surrender that to Him. They promised to keep me accountable and ask me eventually if I had surrendered to God. Well, I finally did... and in the back of my mind I thought, "If I surrender this to God, then God won't ask me to do it! He just wants me to surrender."
Oh, Chanda Panda... if only you knew what was ahead in the coming days.... :-)
To be continued.... :-)
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