The games we play

Games.

Some are Great - like soccer, Dutch Blitz, Apples to Apples, icebreakers, silly groups games, games you play at school (or ones I make students play and then enjoy watching), just to name a few. I generally love playing and organizing games. Plus I can be a little competitive which is all the better!

BUT some games are just so frustrating - mostly the ones played between guys and girls. You know the ones?

I was talking with a guy friend today about my present frustrations and my incredible ability to read into something that was probably nothing. He decided to pass on some advice that was once told to him, as a guy: "If a girl comes easy she is not the one. If she is difficult she is the one." Which he then followed up with stating that guys don't like to play games.

Yes, I've heard it too, but gahhhhhhhh! Basically that quote tells me that if I think a guy is cool then I should pretend I don't, and that sure sounds a whole lot like a GAME to me! A game I stink at! My game play kinda goes like this:

1. I think a guy is sweeeeeet
2. I get too friendly
3. I read into something that is probably nothing and get far too excited
4. I get ridiculous (this can take many forms)
5. The end

Doesn't that sound like a game to you? Can't we just be honest? Just wondering. Though sometimes I try to be sneaky. I really do love that word, and I have so much fun pretending to be sneaky, but usually I'm not as sneaky as I think I am, or so it seems. That's the tricky part. But at least it's usually entertaining for myself and others - if not at the time, then later. Once in university I brought a bird pen to school and sat it on my desk in an attempt to attract a certain person's attention. Unfortunately it didn't work out as I hoped. But I still have the pen.

26 years of being patient can be hard at times, but I'm not complaining (just to be clear). I can be patient. I do trust God is in control and there's far more to life that just a significant other. But it would be nice, and I look forward to starting an adventure with another! It's when I think I've identified the most perfect guy for me that my impatience tends to pop up. Thus begins the ridiculousness, and somehow I become more focused on doing and reading into something that was probably nothing instead of trusting.

Maybe that's why I posted this verse on my wall years ago: "Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for Him" Psalm 37:7

Patiently.

Wait.