Silversmok3
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These events cover several different themes, so Im putting it here for common viewing.
Its funny how God will use travel as His own education tool. I started a new position with a retail sales company in Chicago-which requires per policy that all sales staff be trained in a group induction seminar.
Since the soonest training group was in suburban Boston, MA, off I flew.As I took my boarding pass from the airline counter that Sunday afternoon and found an open chair, I was anticipating a boring week ahead of me.
Monday morning brought on two revelations.One of them being that flying 900 miles east, then getting up a 7am local time is hard on the circadian rythmn.Since falling asleep during a sales meeting is bad form,breakfast was in order.
I take ten steps from the elevator , with exactly 5 minutes to select the magical combination of food and drink that will sustain me for another 4 hours....when I see three young, attractive women, with two sitting together.
Theorizing that these are my classmates who've arrived later, I strike up a conversation with the two sitting together. My roomate then walks into the room and engages the lone woman in the adjacent table, with a subtle wink at me. He can have her company, because nothing good would come of me talking to a pretty girl at 8:30 am on an empty stomach.
After basic introductions over hotel muffins, I discover the two im sitting with are indeed part of the sales meeting, located at an office 5 minutes away from the hotel. They agree to take me and another newcomer to the office.On the drive there the ladies talk about their kids and family, which was all well and good...were it not for my amazement at the absurdity of the Boston road system.
We arrive at the sales office and I notice, out of a group of twenty , six young, beautiful , and business savvy ladies attending. I later determine two dont have boyfriends.It seemed like the answer to quite a few
.
As the week ground on , and I struck up topics of conversation with the ladies, I got to know a deeper aspect of each of their personalities. I discovered that yes, it is quite possible for a knockout brunette to be smart, driven , with a love for trance music and a desire to kick some doors down as a Navy MP ( she was waiting to depart for training , and worked the sales job in the meantime). I learned that a girl who says the silliest things uses shocking language to see who's fake , and who's real in her life. I saw an 18 year old who thought she had the world figured out, begin to understand just how big this thing called life really is. I bonded with a 23 year old young lady who I shared entirely too much in common with-including experience in reading the opposite sex.
These thoughts challenge my mind for supremacy as I wait in the Logan airport lounge for my delayed flight back to Chicago. The rain is obscuring my view of the runway, which has dark, rolling clouds obscuring the sky above it.
As an Aer Lingus aircraft takes off, I think back and wonder why the thought of going home is so depressing. I rule out the nightlife ( didnt go out), the job( same information as available in Chicago),the local area ( Natick has one mall. Chicago has several). Im then left with one answer-the people.
Leaving this group behind was why I was in a low mood. I saw something unique in the women I talked to. It may have started with baser motivations, but in the end....I got to know them better than I planned. And in the process, God used this experience to deliver this truth-
He has good reasons for His rules. None of the ladies were saved, or if they were they did a fine job hiding their faith.No relationship between any of them, were I to live in MA, would have been good for my faith in the long run.Thats my logical thought process.
My internal dialogue is a bit more complicated. Because ,speking of myself,I seek out commonalites in others of the opposite sex-even if its not a good idea, logically, to pursue such commonalities. By getting closer to people, you begin to understand their unique and honest viewpoint on life-but it comes at a price, and that price is that your judgement regarding them will be forever altered.
That's why, on one level, there are so many 'rules' to being a Christian. Like regulations in the military, some of the rules seem banal and absurd-but those rules have a genesis in a crisis long past, a crisis so awful it could not bear to be repeated. God cant explain to each and every one of us, in depth and detail, why fornication is prohibited-He cant explain the heartbreak, the financial loss, the anguish of losing your family, the emotional turmoil , the confusion, any of those truths at face value.All 100 years of our lives would be spent on the first two commandments, were the Almighty to employ this method of explaining why the Biblical rules are the way they are.
From all of this I take this away-God has great reasons for having the rules He has. Trust Jesus, as you would trust your parents, to know better than you do in not just relationships-but in any other aspects of your lives.
Yours in Christ
-Smok3
Its funny how God will use travel as His own education tool. I started a new position with a retail sales company in Chicago-which requires per policy that all sales staff be trained in a group induction seminar.
Since the soonest training group was in suburban Boston, MA, off I flew.As I took my boarding pass from the airline counter that Sunday afternoon and found an open chair, I was anticipating a boring week ahead of me.
Monday morning brought on two revelations.One of them being that flying 900 miles east, then getting up a 7am local time is hard on the circadian rythmn.Since falling asleep during a sales meeting is bad form,breakfast was in order.
I take ten steps from the elevator , with exactly 5 minutes to select the magical combination of food and drink that will sustain me for another 4 hours....when I see three young, attractive women, with two sitting together.
Theorizing that these are my classmates who've arrived later, I strike up a conversation with the two sitting together. My roomate then walks into the room and engages the lone woman in the adjacent table, with a subtle wink at me. He can have her company, because nothing good would come of me talking to a pretty girl at 8:30 am on an empty stomach.
After basic introductions over hotel muffins, I discover the two im sitting with are indeed part of the sales meeting, located at an office 5 minutes away from the hotel. They agree to take me and another newcomer to the office.On the drive there the ladies talk about their kids and family, which was all well and good...were it not for my amazement at the absurdity of the Boston road system.
We arrive at the sales office and I notice, out of a group of twenty , six young, beautiful , and business savvy ladies attending. I later determine two dont have boyfriends.It seemed like the answer to quite a few
.As the week ground on , and I struck up topics of conversation with the ladies, I got to know a deeper aspect of each of their personalities. I discovered that yes, it is quite possible for a knockout brunette to be smart, driven , with a love for trance music and a desire to kick some doors down as a Navy MP ( she was waiting to depart for training , and worked the sales job in the meantime). I learned that a girl who says the silliest things uses shocking language to see who's fake , and who's real in her life. I saw an 18 year old who thought she had the world figured out, begin to understand just how big this thing called life really is. I bonded with a 23 year old young lady who I shared entirely too much in common with-including experience in reading the opposite sex.
These thoughts challenge my mind for supremacy as I wait in the Logan airport lounge for my delayed flight back to Chicago. The rain is obscuring my view of the runway, which has dark, rolling clouds obscuring the sky above it.
As an Aer Lingus aircraft takes off, I think back and wonder why the thought of going home is so depressing. I rule out the nightlife ( didnt go out), the job( same information as available in Chicago),the local area ( Natick has one mall. Chicago has several). Im then left with one answer-the people.
Leaving this group behind was why I was in a low mood. I saw something unique in the women I talked to. It may have started with baser motivations, but in the end....I got to know them better than I planned. And in the process, God used this experience to deliver this truth-
He has good reasons for His rules. None of the ladies were saved, or if they were they did a fine job hiding their faith.No relationship between any of them, were I to live in MA, would have been good for my faith in the long run.Thats my logical thought process.
My internal dialogue is a bit more complicated. Because ,speking of myself,I seek out commonalites in others of the opposite sex-even if its not a good idea, logically, to pursue such commonalities. By getting closer to people, you begin to understand their unique and honest viewpoint on life-but it comes at a price, and that price is that your judgement regarding them will be forever altered.
That's why, on one level, there are so many 'rules' to being a Christian. Like regulations in the military, some of the rules seem banal and absurd-but those rules have a genesis in a crisis long past, a crisis so awful it could not bear to be repeated. God cant explain to each and every one of us, in depth and detail, why fornication is prohibited-He cant explain the heartbreak, the financial loss, the anguish of losing your family, the emotional turmoil , the confusion, any of those truths at face value.All 100 years of our lives would be spent on the first two commandments, were the Almighty to employ this method of explaining why the Biblical rules are the way they are.
From all of this I take this away-God has great reasons for having the rules He has. Trust Jesus, as you would trust your parents, to know better than you do in not just relationships-but in any other aspects of your lives.
Yours in Christ
-Smok3