Wondering about relationships…

I constantly wonder about relationships here in South America as I meet incredible people, including girls on an almost daily basis. It seems so easy to find fun people when you are abroad in terms of taking a girl to dinner, but it becomes a little more challenging when I return to the seriousness of the Bible Belt in Auburn, Alabama. Although there is an annoyance about such seriousness, there is also something very respectable and beautiful about this seriousness, meaning that a girl who loves Jesus takes things a little more seriously because relationships are not so much of a game. It is not just a good time. It is something special that at some point requires specific and meticulous consideration. Perhaps it is annoying for those who are looking for one night stands, but for those of us who might want something a little more down-to-Earth, realistic, lasting, and maybe even in the long term permanent, this may not be such a bad thing. Girls are serious because perhaps they seek to protect what has in the past been broken by a jerk of a boyfriend. So things are not easily given away. You have to earn what you get. While it can be frustrating and difficult in the process, perhaps the reward is worth the cost. One person constantly comes to mind when perfecting this process. While this person can frustrate me more than any other person on this planet at times, she also asks the questions that matter most and that probe my consciousness for answers that are honorable. As my good friend Doug Brunson once said, “It is the person you cannot sometimes stand to be around, but it also the person you cannot stand to be without.” I do not say this in reference to the previously mentioned person. I long gave up on trying to even get a real date with this girl, but that does not mean anything in terms of her incredible probing qualities. I want a girl who will ask those relevant questions that make me wonder, that make me think, and perhaps that make me dream in ways I did not before think possible. You may think this entry is a bunch of crap, or perhaps it makes you think a bit. If you are a girl reading this, perhaps there is a brother in the house that needs a break. Give the brother a break, and you might be surprised what arises from the break given to an opportunity that once seemed uninteresting.