Rheged
10-07-2006, 12:33 PM
Here's the problem, your prayers are needed:
About a year back, I met a fresher girl at one my university Christian Union meetings, I was in my third year at the time. This may sound daft but I fell in love with her within a couple of days. She just struck a chord with me, we got on a like a house on fire. We have so much in common, my life feels dull to the point of being painful without her nearby. In my eyes she is beautiful in every way.
I would have considered pursuing a deeper relationship with her, but she has a boyfriend who she's been seeing since April 2005. Because of this I have been doing my best to hide the extent of my feelings toward her, so that the knowledge of my love does not interfere with the relationship she has with this man, whom she obviously loves as much as I love her - to interfere with that relationship would cause her pain, which I cannot do.
Currently, we are still the best of friends, to the point where we even think alike a lot of the time and we also share meals quite frequently. Where one of us is ill or upset, the other spends time looking after the sufferer. You see the depth of our friendship?
Over the past year, rather than dissipating or changing to a more appropriate form of love, as I'd hoped and prayed for, my love for her has only grown more and more, more than I've ever known for any other person. So far I've managed to keep my silence concerning this, and I'm fairly sure she still does not know, indeed I hope this is so.
At the moment I can barely stop myself from telling her how I feel, and I need your prayers to help keep me from spilling the beans, or from going crazy trying to keep my feelings secret.
These are my faults concerning this matter: Envy - toward the man who has her heart, for wanting to be in his shoes; Adultery by thought - for wanting her for myself, when she already has a man; Dishonesty - for saying "No" when she asked me if I loved any particular woman in that way.
I should also tell you that both the she, and her boyfriend are fellow Christians, and that they (to the best of my knowledge) keep their relationship according to the teachings of the Bible.
Please help,
Yours in the service of Christ,
Rheged (David Corkish of Caerdydd)
About a year back, I met a fresher girl at one my university Christian Union meetings, I was in my third year at the time. This may sound daft but I fell in love with her within a couple of days. She just struck a chord with me, we got on a like a house on fire. We have so much in common, my life feels dull to the point of being painful without her nearby. In my eyes she is beautiful in every way.
I would have considered pursuing a deeper relationship with her, but she has a boyfriend who she's been seeing since April 2005. Because of this I have been doing my best to hide the extent of my feelings toward her, so that the knowledge of my love does not interfere with the relationship she has with this man, whom she obviously loves as much as I love her - to interfere with that relationship would cause her pain, which I cannot do.
Currently, we are still the best of friends, to the point where we even think alike a lot of the time and we also share meals quite frequently. Where one of us is ill or upset, the other spends time looking after the sufferer. You see the depth of our friendship?
Over the past year, rather than dissipating or changing to a more appropriate form of love, as I'd hoped and prayed for, my love for her has only grown more and more, more than I've ever known for any other person. So far I've managed to keep my silence concerning this, and I'm fairly sure she still does not know, indeed I hope this is so.
At the moment I can barely stop myself from telling her how I feel, and I need your prayers to help keep me from spilling the beans, or from going crazy trying to keep my feelings secret.
These are my faults concerning this matter: Envy - toward the man who has her heart, for wanting to be in his shoes; Adultery by thought - for wanting her for myself, when she already has a man; Dishonesty - for saying "No" when she asked me if I loved any particular woman in that way.
I should also tell you that both the she, and her boyfriend are fellow Christians, and that they (to the best of my knowledge) keep their relationship according to the teachings of the Bible.
Please help,
Yours in the service of Christ,
Rheged (David Corkish of Caerdydd)