Blown Away

So today I have to think has been a good day. I went and spent all afternoon and most of the night back "home" on Oak Island and mostly at Fort Caswell visiting old friends and my best friend. On my way to the Fort I stopped by the Coast Guard station and visited with the guys there. It was good to see them although several of the guys & girls that I had become friends with last year doing my internship there had been transfered to different stations. Anyhow it was nice to drop by and see them.

After my visit with Station Oak Island, I went through the gates one more time entering my 2nd home. It was such a blessing going back there, haven't been there in a really long time. I got to finally see my "little sister" before her big new york trip and I loved getting to hang out with her. We hung out on the beach and took out the rescue board to catch a few waves surfing lifeguard style. It was great to see her and had a great time just getting to catch up with her and talk about her trip and life. She's a great girl and I can't wait for God to bless her with a Christian guy that she is totally deserving of, she likes one but since he lives far away she doesn't know if it's reciprocated and she doesn't have the courage to bring it up to him, maybe I should mention it...haha maybe not she'd kill me. Anyhow God I know is going to bless her one of these days with an on fire amazing christian guy.

Aside from seeing my lil sister got to hang out a little with this years lifeguard squad and I have to say they may be in the makings of their own 05' squad like I was apart of. The 2005 lifeguard squad was def the best year for me and everyone on it. We had so much fun and we still all talk about that year and occasionally all 8 of us get the chance to hang out and reminisce. I think they will have a great time this summer and hopefully they are all well trained and prepared to keep the waters safe.

So next the BIG story of the day was finally getting a chance to talk to Jess. It has been a tough road here recently but finally we got a chance to talk about things between us. I was really anxious before going to talk. It was nice, we went and relived some old times by going to OI Sub Shop (best place for great subs on the island) and took that to-go and drove to the end of the island where it over looks the sound and if you catch it right great place to watch the sunset, to bad we didn't have the convertible like we used to. Anyhow we ate and enjoyed some small talk just catching up on how things had been going with each other since last time we hung out. Later we ended up walking like 2miles on the beach just getting to talk about things between us, and I was really blown away by how God works. The time we had talking was really a blessed time, I had been praying for several days that God would prepare both of us to be able to talk and say things that needed to be discussed between the two of us and God just really made that happen. I was again blown away in the way that through the past few weeks I know I have been trying to seek God in all of this and asked that he would reveal what happened. I really believe he has revealed where and how things went wrong between us, but the big kicker of this, and really shocked me, is that God revealed the same thing to Jess and I in the exact same way. I was really taken away by that, and really it gave me alot of peace. However there is more, something that really captured me and blew me away and totally didn't see it coming. After we got done with our walk ended up going back to one of my most favorite spots in the whole world and she told me that she wanted to pray together. WOW I couldn't believe it, God had just totally showed up and showed off blessing the time that we got to spend together. This evenings talk with her and how it exceeded my expectations beyond imagine really reaffirmed me that God has his hand on my life, her life, and our relationship/friendship and he has gotten our attention. We lost focus on the Maker and now he has shown us that and I know he is going to continue to reveal things to us as time goes on so just going to try and get back to what worked before which is to Try Hard and Love Jesus............and the rest will all fall into place once the 1st things are taken care of. I really can't get over how blessed the time we had together was, God definitely exceeded my expectations of how our time would go and for that I am truly grateful for that.

Im not sure what God has in store for her and I but I know his immediate plan was to really get our attention, and boy has he done that. I just pray that we both seek His will in the coming days, weeks, months b/c I know it's not going to be easy and we can't get through this alone. We've really got to, I've got to put all my trust in Him. Maybe after all this God will restore our friendship, b/c we really are best friends and I hate not being able to talk to and see my best friend so I hope that really gets back to the amazing friendship we have, and just maybe there will be an US again but that will be in God's timing and not mine nor her's so we'll just have to wait and see how God continues to work in our individual lives.

Totally blown away and blessed, so thankful.....
Thank you God and You for a blessed time.