Getting the Girls

I have recently realized how irresistible I am to women. It is sort of crazy how girls fall in love with me everywhere. Not that its always a good thing. Let me explain....

Either late May or early June, Brad and I did an install at the McDonald's house. Brad started the install, I came a little bit later to finish while he went to another job. Mr. and Mrs. McDonald have a young, 3 years old, daughter who was very shy the whole time I was there. She was on the couch watching a movie with her father, I think it was the newest Rambo movie, perfect for any 3 year old female, just what they always want to watch. Anyways, each time I looked over I would see her eyes peeking over the couch looking at me, I would smile and she would duck. I would laugh to myself and go about my work, not thinking much about it. Mid-July, I get a call that their Internet has been having issues since the install of our equipment, so I drive over there to fix it. As soon as I get there, this little girl (whose name I can't remember) excitedly yells, "Tom's here!" This three year old girl remembered my name after like a month and a half? I must have made an impression. (Brad believes its my beautiful hair.) She then asks, "Is Brad coming too?" Both I and her father laugh. While I work, she stands at the opposite side of the room, just watching me and smiling from the doorway, every few minutes, telling her parents, "Tom's here!" What a sweet little girl with some really nice parents. I wish all my customers could be like that family.

About a month later, my upstairs neighbor's daughter starts talking to me. I don't really recall how this started but she has decided she wants to have a water gun fight with her friends against me and my roommates. She talks to me just about every time she sees me, which is normally when I am going to a job. I think I was just taught not to be rude, especially not to kids, so I will usually talk to her and her friends for a few minutes, maybe getting to an appointment a few minutes later than expected. I believe this girl has a crush on me, as much as any 9 year old girl ever has a crush on someone.

These girls got me thinking. First, a 3 year old, then a month later, a 9 year old. Every month it jumps by 6 years. In two months, a 21 year old will fall in love with me. This is good because I do have my eye on a certain one.

A Bible Thought

I know that I have a few readers who aren't too religious, so I am going to preface this posting by saying that I am talking about the Bible in this one. I don't want to throw too much stuff like this in here, but if its what's on my mind, I will share it. I will just be nice enough to preface it with something like this, so if you want to skip it, feel free.

I have been thinking a lot recently about 1 Corinthians 13. As most of you know, this is known as the love chapter. In this chapter, Paul is talking about what love is. I like to think I show love to all people I meet. I know that I don't do it 100% of the time, which I do feel bad about and know I need to work on, but I do try. The part of this chapter that I recently thought about is verse 5. "It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs." (Thanks biblegateway.com for access the verse.) For years, I took this to mean, 'Don't be angry.' I would try to always hold my temper and not get mad at people. I don't really think that is what it is saying. Don't be EASILY angered. Love can get angry. It shouldn't fly off the handle or anything, but Love can be angry. This really was just a revelation to me. I thought about it, and the Bible does say GOD is Love and that GOD was angry. I guess its sort of like how a parent can get angry with a child. Being angry with them doesn't change the love they have for their child. In fact, its usually because they love the child that they are angry. The child was being disobedient and the parent is upset for the child's own good. I guess just multiply that by like a billion and you can get a small idea of what GOD is like when HE is angry. HE doesn't fly off the handle, but is always looking out for those HE loves, us. Since a Christian is supposed to be like Christ, we need to make sure to emulate GOD's love in the small way we can.