Dear Eden,
As I sit on this muggy and glorious afternoon, I’m not where
I want to be. My best friends are
travelling back right now from Washington DC where they spent the weekend.
Crazy story: Months
ago, I got invited to this anniversary party that I said yes to and then forgot
about. Then three weeks ago, some
friends and I decided it would be awesome to go on a road trip for the weekend
to DC to see other friends and experience the city. After planning it out, we were all so
excited. But then I saw on my calendar
this anniversary party happened on the same weekend. Oh no.
Operating off of ‘I really want to go be with my friends’
and ‘What does it matter if one less person is at this party?’, I baked the
anniversary couple bread, bought them flowers and wrote a sweet, long note
saying ‘I can’t make it to your party’ in the kindest way possible. A bribe of sorts. So two nights later, I left all three pieces
at their house hoping the ants would be deterred from the bread by the
ridiculous amount of foil.
Then I woke up early the next morning thinking about the
Bible Verse “let your “yes” be yes and your “no” be no. Conviction city. I had said “yes” to going a few months ago,
and now I’m going back on my word. So,
after realizing I was completely in the wrong (and knowing it meant so much to
this couple that I said I’d go to this party), I grabbed shoes, ran out to my
car and drove back to their house as quick as I could. After screeching to a halt next to their
house: Glory!—all 3 pieces were still outside their door! So I quickly wrote a hurried, messy note that
said ‘Thanks for inviting me to your party—I’ll be there!’ and crept up to
their door and switched out the notes. Then
I drove away as quick as a bank robber.
This is that weekend.
As the Lord would have it, since I wasn’t out of town, I got to spend
some quality time with a friend of mine and we ended up having an incredibly
powerful conversation that I’ll probably remember the rest of my life. Also the Lord gave me a great time to rest. What a blessing to recharge in the midst of a
crazy time of life.
It still stinks that I didn’t get to go on the trip with my
buddies, but it’s neat to me that the Lord loved me enough to say "no" to my
temper tantrums in order to take care of me and to give me what I couldn’t even
imagine beforehand.
Love you Eden!
Jessey
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