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Why are we afraid to ask girls out? Maybe you're not, but, maybe, you are.
I am, have been, forever, maybe, you want to tell us a story like this....
I was 16 and a sophomore in high school and entering the fall quarter, six classes per day, one was geometry, where I met a girl.... A girl. I fell head over heels in love; go ahead, if you want, say it, 'I fell in lust.' Some, true, I just 15, hormones a-hopping. But, it was more than lust, it was 'like,' too. I really liked this girl, who I and her sat next to each other and talked and chatted and made jokes amongst ourselves. Was fun. I really KNEW I liked this girl. But, then, after a month of geometry fun, her laughing at my jokes, me getting help from her in class ( I was so not into that subject, my mind was elsewhere, you know
) So, after a month, the teacher decided to rearrange us, I was thrown into a seat far away from this girl I liked. It was unfair, probably just made me then and there dislike God more. But, anyway....
We no longer talked, we grew distant, and, yeah, call me crazy and dumb but I NEVER asked her out, for one thing it was difficult because I was a year from getting my driver's license, but, more than that, I was just flat-out SCARED to death of asking a girl out. Crazy, I know, huh. Gets crazier....
A year later, I now, 16, have a truck, have a more confident self, athletic, etc. was TWO MONTHS into school of my junior year and I had nary hardly even talked to this girl the first two months, OH, NO, girls everywhere, I think, can see where this is going, and, it's NOT fun for me to go 'there,' but, here I go.....
I walked up to her after school in November, after the sports fall season was done I played, and, started to open my mouth to ask her out, and, let me tell YOU this became the worst entire experience of my entire God-born life !
"Woooo-uuuuu-llld yooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo--" AND I started to slowly and then quickly as the rest of the words DID come out of me even, BAWL my ever-loving head off "like tooooo goooo out with meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee."
By this point, miladies, and, dudegents, I was a hot mess, of tears and stickiness and I am going to admit this too, it was first time I ever asked a girl out in high school. And, the last. OK, maybe, this is why I am single and 44
Why must you have me go there, Lord ! OH, ok, for my fellow peeps, I go, I went, I saw, I spoke, I definitely did NOT conquer that moment .
GOOD NEWS though ! Kind of, well, OK, not really. That SAME girl called me up on Sunday of that weekend (I asked her out on Friday after school) to see if I was aware of something, like a junior canned food drive. OK, I admit it, I should be saying something now on the phone to her like, "I was such a ship of fools, I was like soo not myself last Friday, I really like you and have since geometry but just never got the nerve up to ask you."
But, sigh, I said none of that, I was a stupid, stupid, stupid, probably just thinking , I think I was thinking this: "Oh, she's just calling me like she's calling everyone else for the canned food drive."
I should have had faith in my God, but, admittedly, parents were bitterly fighting that year, and, had a couple years earlier not got along and would seperate from marriage that summer before my senior year of high school. So, anyway, my point of all this is.....
THAT girl you like, GO FOR IT ! And, then, IF you get a 2nd chance, which I did, she called me Sunday when someone else could have I AM SURE, well, I think I am sure, I never discussed it with her but, anyway, the coincidence seems to real to just dismiss her calling Sunday night as 'routine.' And, let the Lord lead you, OH, I cannot stress this enough, GET your relationship right with God and your confidence will soar in life and, who knows, maybe, God will PUT a girl in your life.
And, when you have confidence in Him who made you, you will have confidence in yourself, you will understand His 'work' for you in life, you will understand that you are His work (Eph. 2:10), you will no longe have the spirit of fear in asking a girl out
The Lord leads, may God bless your 'walk' with Him
I am, have been, forever, maybe, you want to tell us a story like this....
I was 16 and a sophomore in high school and entering the fall quarter, six classes per day, one was geometry, where I met a girl.... A girl. I fell head over heels in love; go ahead, if you want, say it, 'I fell in lust.' Some, true, I just 15, hormones a-hopping. But, it was more than lust, it was 'like,' too. I really liked this girl, who I and her sat next to each other and talked and chatted and made jokes amongst ourselves. Was fun. I really KNEW I liked this girl. But, then, after a month of geometry fun, her laughing at my jokes, me getting help from her in class ( I was so not into that subject, my mind was elsewhere, you know
) So, after a month, the teacher decided to rearrange us, I was thrown into a seat far away from this girl I liked. It was unfair, probably just made me then and there dislike God more. But, anyway....We no longer talked, we grew distant, and, yeah, call me crazy and dumb but I NEVER asked her out, for one thing it was difficult because I was a year from getting my driver's license, but, more than that, I was just flat-out SCARED to death of asking a girl out. Crazy, I know, huh. Gets crazier....
A year later, I now, 16, have a truck, have a more confident self, athletic, etc. was TWO MONTHS into school of my junior year and I had nary hardly even talked to this girl the first two months, OH, NO, girls everywhere, I think, can see where this is going, and, it's NOT fun for me to go 'there,' but, here I go.....
I walked up to her after school in November, after the sports fall season was done I played, and, started to open my mouth to ask her out, and, let me tell YOU this became the worst entire experience of my entire God-born life !
"Woooo-uuuuu-llld yooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo--" AND I started to slowly and then quickly as the rest of the words DID come out of me even, BAWL my ever-loving head off "like tooooo goooo out with meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee."
By this point, miladies, and, dudegents, I was a hot mess, of tears and stickiness and I am going to admit this too, it was first time I ever asked a girl out in high school. And, the last. OK, maybe, this is why I am single and 44
Why must you have me go there, Lord ! OH, ok, for my fellow peeps, I go, I went, I saw, I spoke, I definitely did NOT conquer that moment .
GOOD NEWS though ! Kind of, well, OK, not really. That SAME girl called me up on Sunday of that weekend (I asked her out on Friday after school) to see if I was aware of something, like a junior canned food drive. OK, I admit it, I should be saying something now on the phone to her like, "I was such a ship of fools, I was like soo not myself last Friday, I really like you and have since geometry but just never got the nerve up to ask you."
But, sigh, I said none of that, I was a stupid, stupid, stupid, probably just thinking , I think I was thinking this: "Oh, she's just calling me like she's calling everyone else for the canned food drive."
I should have had faith in my God, but, admittedly, parents were bitterly fighting that year, and, had a couple years earlier not got along and would seperate from marriage that summer before my senior year of high school. So, anyway, my point of all this is.....
THAT girl you like, GO FOR IT ! And, then, IF you get a 2nd chance, which I did, she called me Sunday when someone else could have I AM SURE, well, I think I am sure, I never discussed it with her but, anyway, the coincidence seems to real to just dismiss her calling Sunday night as 'routine.' And, let the Lord lead you, OH, I cannot stress this enough, GET your relationship right with God and your confidence will soar in life and, who knows, maybe, God will PUT a girl in your life.
And, when you have confidence in Him who made you, you will have confidence in yourself, you will understand His 'work' for you in life, you will understand that you are His work (Eph. 2:10), you will no longe have the spirit of fear in asking a girl out
The Lord leads, may God bless your 'walk' with Him