often as possible. But on those occasions when keeping a safe
distance wasn’t possible, that’s when I could tell this whole
thing was becoming a bigger deal to me than I was letting on. A
lot of emotion would bubble to the surface when she was
around. I was stewing. The feelings inside when I thought of
her or saw her weren’t doing me any good. And even though I
tried to push them out of mind, fairly justified that I’d done
nothing wrong to cause this kind of reaction from someone...
still, the blockage kept showing up with this person’s name on
it. And wouldn’t go away.
Then came 2 Corinthians 2:5–7.Forgive.Comfort.Obedience.Outwitted.Designs.God and I—we went round and round while I debated with
Him (and without Him) the necessity of this bit of conviction.