Waiting at Sugar Browns

As most of you know I am waiting patiently on the Lord. Waiting for many things, but for this blog let’s just narrow it down to my future husband. I know that we are always a work in progress as evidence by Philippians 1:6. So I will never stop learning and growing or be complete until Jesus comes back for us all. All that being said, if there is one thing I am sure of, it is that I have many things to work through before I am ready for my husband. So I wait, I mean God’s timing is not my own and who’s to say God won’t plop him down in front of me before I am ready. Hmmmm???? Naaaa he wouldn’t do that.

Anyway, I went to my favorite local coffee shop, Sugar Browns. OK ok ok I know I know. I don’t like coffee and for years may have even ragged (in a friendly manor) on some of you for going to coffee shops maybe even specifically going to Sugar Browns. I am sorry, and was wrong. So mark it in your calendars because I don’t say that too often. I enjoy it now because I don’t have TV or internet at my little apartment so I just go to Sugar Browns and drink a hot Chai or Steamed milk. You can call me a granola if you want, but I have yet to buy any Chacos or climb a mountain.

So anyway I am at Sugar Browns and I am reading Galatians because of a little bit of persecution I am getting from someone who believes in a false gospel (that’s another story). As stated before I am in a constant state of waiting, it isn’t always on my mind and wasn’t this particular evening…Until… a fairly attractive guy in his upper 20’s reading The Biography of William Carey sat in a chair next to me. Hummm. Maybe God’s timing IS a good thing. Hint hint God…. Attractive guy reading a biography on the father of missions; your timing could be wonderful right now!!!! Lol

I ignored this guy as best I could and continued reading and studying, I was being very successful and actually learning from my bible study. But then I got up to get a glass of water and he introduced himself. Alright, I thought, here we go God’s timing! He asked me what I was reading. When I explained to him what I was reading and why, he offered a bit of encouragement toward my persecution situation.~ Sigh~ What a nice guy. And then I thought maybe I should invite him to church; you know, give God’s timing a little nudge. So I asked him if he had a church here in Lubbock. He reviled that he was currently on staff at First Baptist Lbk. I said "Oh, ok, well if you didn’t I was going to invite you to mine." He smiled, and was beginning to open his mouth to speak. This is the moment where all attempts to guard my heart flew out the window. I thought here it is, yay! He is going to ask if I want to have coffee with him sometime or something like that. It will be perfect!

That’s when it happened. He asked if I was a Tech student and if I would like to attend this bible study they have. He didn’t know if I had heard of it yet. It was….(drum roll please) PARADIGM. ... Doh!... My poor little heart hit the floor. That’s when I realized that I was sitting there in a tattered Twilight T-shirt with my hair arranged in such a way that I looked 12.  LOL hahahahaha. This guy, this poor sweet guy, thought I was a college freshman and just wanted to let me know about his church’s college ministry. UGH hahaha. I giggled and told him I had attended and enjoyed Paradigm as a college student and asked if John Randles still spoke there. He got a surprised look on his face and said that John had left the year before he was on staff there and that was five years ago. I smiled and said yeah that was forever ago. Both of us being a little embarrassed conceded to continue our reading and I went back to my constant state of waiting .

You know what I think? (scratch that) Do you know what I know? God’s timing is perfect. I mean that was the perfect humors little situation I needed to know A) there are still Godly single men out there B) God is still thinking of me, because he did use this guy to encourage me about the persecution situation I am facing, and C) I am still NOT ready so I need to better guard my heart as I wait in eager anticipation of the moment that I meet my future husband.