Spiritual Networking

Spiritual Networking - Chapter 2

Sydney had graduated with him, but her degree was in Church Music. As the minister of music, she had a beautiful voice and an anointing that could make people stop and listen,  not just to her amazing voice, but to the words and meaning of the song. She was also very beautiful, blonde curly hair down to her waist, and blue eyes that looked like the ocean sparkling on a sunny day.

Physically, Paul knew he could be attracted to Sydney. Spiritually, he had never met a better Christian, however the connection just wasn’t there. It wasn’t like he ever gave it a chance, he wasn’t sure if he wanted to have a romantic relationship like she wanted. The fact that they worked closely together, and Sydney was the Senior Pastor’s daughter were two more reasons he never gave it a chance! No, it was hard enough to find a pastor that believed in the missions field on the Internet, Paul could not mess this up by dating his one and only daughter.

At lunch, Sydney gave Paul some great church trivia. They were waiting on their lunches to arrive and Paul was adding the questions and answers to a document on his laptop. He looked up after adding the last one and saw Sydney had a mischievous smile on her face and her eyes were twinkling.

“I’ve got a great one!” Sydney was so excited, Paul thought she might burst on the spot if she did not get it out of her. “What staff member recorded a voicemail message quoting a scripture about a certain animal talking in the Bible and then said,  ‘At the sound of the beep, please allow the dumb ass to speak!’?”

Paul could barely hear Sydney at the end of the “trivia question” through all of her laughter, but he knew what she was saying. At first he was mad because she had promised to never mention this again. But then, he couldn’t help but join in on the laughter. “Hey!” he said through chuckles, “that’s not fair! First of all, you promised! Maybe I should word it, ‘What staff member asked an innocent college boy to record profanity on her voicemail?’ I think that would make a better question!”

Sydney rolled her crystal blue eyes at Paul and patted his arm, “Only you would darlin’, I prefer my question of course!”

“Of course!” Paul agreed, but refused to type either question in his document. “Do you remember your father’s reaction when he called? I am surprised I work for him after that!”

Sydney looked down at her hands resting on the table and then looked up at him through her eyelashes with a little grin playing across her face. “Well,” she said sheepishly. Paul had never seen Sydney shy before, it was rather attractive. “I never told him it was you! He told me that it might not be appropriate for someone to call and hear that and suggested rather strongly that I remove it. So, I did. He never asked whose voice it was, so I never told him.”

Grateful not only for Sydney’s omission to Pastor Davis, but also that lunch had arrived, they continued to gather more trivia questions as they ate. And they never spoke about the omitted question again, well at least not for today.

After lunch, Paul dropped Sydney off at the church and headed to his apartment to see what was happening around the world. He found that he got most of his news lately from the Internet, choosing to read a variety of sources, but also surfed a couple of good news websites for videos. It was amazing, he could see what was happening on the other side of the world in just a few easy clicks.

He also needed to post a new devotional on 抖阴社区. Signing in, he was happy to see that his devotional was ‘What’s Hot #146’ and knew that with each chapter, more people would be touched by the words God gave him.

‘God knew before you were born the plans he had for you. He even knew what door you would walk through and the doors you would pass by. But, luckily for us stubborn children, God allows second, third and even fourth chances (sometimes even more, I know from experience). He will allow us to choose on our own. No other deity, has ever given their subjects a chance to choose. But, the One True God is a gentleman and He will not force us to do things we don’t want to do. And He will even take us into His loving arms when we screw up and cry, ‘Abba, Father’ because He loves us.