DESIRE, RESTRAINT, AND HOPE (28)
Scripture: Song of Songs 2:8-10, Song of Songs 2:14-17, Songs of Songs 3:1-5
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Desire, Restraint, and Hope (28)
Series: Wisdom - Suffering, Thinking, Loving, and Living Authentically
Patrick Edwards
Song of Songs 2:8-3:5
Introduction
As I've mentioned before, Teresa and I met years ago through her brother's church in the Southside of Richmond. I was attending a local church where her brother was pastor and Teresa would often come up on weekends from Virginia Beach to visit him. To be honest I don't know what it was exactly that sparked the interest there but I fell for her rather quickly and obsessively. I'd email her all the time, write her letters, and send her text messages (and this was back when texting was a new thing and you have to pay per text message, something like $.05 per text). Well, I remember our first month together getting my cell phone bill and it was for $300, and again this was before smart phone and data plans. In other words, when I did the math I figured out that I had sent Teresa somewhere around 5500 text messages in a single month! 5500. That's around 180 per day or 24 text messages per hour, were you not to sleep but send text messages every hour for 24 hours. 5500 text messages in one month to one person! Needless to say, I was sick with love.
That first year together I lived in Wake Forest and would take every opportunity I had to drive 3.5 hours to go see her, even if it was just for an afternoon. I know her parents had to have gotten sick of me always being at their house that year that Teresa and I were apart. We would talk for hours on the phone; even just laying in bed talking on the phone until Teresa would eventually fall asleep while I talked and I would just hang up the phone and let her rest.
Any of us who have been in love remember those seasons when you can hardly control your desire for the other person, where thoughts of them consume your every moment, when you even feel physically sick. It's both an exhilarating time of life and an agonizing one. But let's just stop for a minute t ...
Series: Wisdom - Suffering, Thinking, Loving, and Living Authentically
Patrick Edwards
Song of Songs 2:8-3:5
Introduction
As I've mentioned before, Teresa and I met years ago through her brother's church in the Southside of Richmond. I was attending a local church where her brother was pastor and Teresa would often come up on weekends from Virginia Beach to visit him. To be honest I don't know what it was exactly that sparked the interest there but I fell for her rather quickly and obsessively. I'd email her all the time, write her letters, and send her text messages (and this was back when texting was a new thing and you have to pay per text message, something like $.05 per text). Well, I remember our first month together getting my cell phone bill and it was for $300, and again this was before smart phone and data plans. In other words, when I did the math I figured out that I had sent Teresa somewhere around 5500 text messages in a single month! 5500. That's around 180 per day or 24 text messages per hour, were you not to sleep but send text messages every hour for 24 hours. 5500 text messages in one month to one person! Needless to say, I was sick with love.
That first year together I lived in Wake Forest and would take every opportunity I had to drive 3.5 hours to go see her, even if it was just for an afternoon. I know her parents had to have gotten sick of me always being at their house that year that Teresa and I were apart. We would talk for hours on the phone; even just laying in bed talking on the phone until Teresa would eventually fall asleep while I talked and I would just hang up the phone and let her rest.
Any of us who have been in love remember those seasons when you can hardly control your desire for the other person, where thoughts of them consume your every moment, when you even feel physically sick. It's both an exhilarating time of life and an agonizing one. But let's just stop for a minute t ...
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