Gainer wrote:
I am jelous of people who have friends, girlfriends, companions.... Something that has made me very upset is when the people i know stab me in the back... no detail... Ideally I just want someone to say "Hey, you are goinmg to be OK"
Well, I have survived nine years or so of emerging from a difficult betrayal (I must candidly acknowledge that some of the guilt for that time attaches to me as well). Through the grace of God I have at least matured enough to be able to continue friends with the object of my affection when it transpires that we cannot become sweethearts. Being able to talk about common interests like history helps; one can have mutual enjoyment
The latest object of my affections is a lovely girl from Church whom I have known for years (we both go to the traditional Holy Communion service at quarter to nine in the morning on Sundays and are easily the youngest there so avoidance is not much of an option) called Laura, whom I am honoured to call friend. She has lovely subdued reddish brown hair and greenish blue eyes, is generally quiet but has a wicked sense of humour that I suspect not all her acquaintances know about (I remember once years back for some reason we seemed to end up discussing in succession Mordred, Macbeth, Richard III, Cardinal Richelieu, Robespiere, Stalin and Hitler (but she's the nicest girl, honest
; I, on the other hand have been manipulated from childhood by probably the same demons who have cut such a swathe through history
- I suspect they wish me to become the False Prophet, the Harbinger of the Beast - not the Antichrist her/himself, just as John the Baptist was not the Messiah; but the one who will lure the majority of humanity into the false religion of the Adoration of the Beast during the End Times, which have been long postponed and will be considerably shortened, both due to the merciful compassionate grace of the Ancient of Days, Sovereign Lord of Time and Eternity, the King of the Ages and Creator of the Worlds, but will still be such a time as to make the 1550s, 1790s and 1940s seem like the tormenting of a schoolyard bully - we must prepare by strengthening the things that remain).
With the help of the grace of God I am striving to resist their dastardly designs, seeking instead to follow my Master, Yeshua of Nazareth the Anointed Word Incarnate, in becoming a Man of Constant Sorrows, like Olorin/Mithrandir (Gandalf) learning pity and patience.
Insurmountable moral and practal obstacles seem to keep intervening to prevent my romantic union; one might easily be tempted to subscribe to my father's favoured theory of the Conspiracy.
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