Stories from the YBC( Paul's Fettle)

"I'm committed to this relationship and I’ll do everything it takes to make it work." This was the summary of what Kemi told Paul six months earlier. The look on her face conveyed seriousness.
But that was six months ago. She had gone ahead to marry Tim, her ex-boyfriend, when he proposed. That broke Paul, he found it hard to understand the extremities in action.

Seated in front of him that sunny morning, explaining amidst tears why she loved Tim so much and couldn't imagine a life without him was the same girl who had told him barely six months ago how he meant everything to her. Paul couldn't understand how one girl could profess love to two guys at the same time and he just wondered how many others there were. This was the lady he was already making plans to marry, and she just turned around and dealt him such blow. He was dumbfounded. The series of events that followed afterwards made him harden his heart. He vowed to never let any woman free access into his heart. He decided to follow his colleague’s advice; according to Henry, “the chances of  heartbreak wasn’t worth the effort poured into loving.” His dealings with Kemi proved so.

      So as Paul sat on the cream colored plastic chair in the youths' class that Sunday morning listening to Mrs. Hills talk about love and forgiveness, he wondered if she had any experience of what she was saying.
"Love is self-giving, slow to anger, easy to forgive, caring and peace-loving" Mrs. Hills added to what she had been saying, while Paul nursed his heartbreak. The love he had for Kemi fulfilled the aforementioned requirements.
He didn't know where he went wrong. If only Kemi had told him what it was that he did that pushed her back to Tim. He believed the transition was a fault of his.
But he treated Kemi with so much respect; he acted all gentlemanly so he couldn't even point out on his own, what it was he had done wrong.

Charles gave him a nudge bringing him to consciousness. He glanced at Charles's notebook and noticed that Mrs. Hills had gone much further into the teaching. He hated spacing out during Bible class but there was something about the way Mrs. Hills talked, that made you introspect. It makes him want to leave every other thing and understand the talk at hand or settle an internal distress- as was his case this morning. He made up his mind to go through Charles's notebook at the end of the class to see what he missed.

"When you love deeply, you risk hurting yourself that's true, but it's not love when done any other way." Mrs. Hills chatted on. “Look at how God did it. Sending his only son to come die for humanity. He didn't mind that his gift would be looked down at. He went all in. Withholding nothing; that’s how we're to love.”

Deep within him, Paul understood what Mrs. Hills was saying. He even believed as much but it was going to be hard to move on.

After the class, he moved with Charles to find the other boys. After a class such as this, he knew there would be questions… they would like to know how far he has healed. As much as he wanted to dislike their intrusiveness, he thanked God instead for gifting him such amazing friends.

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Dear friends, do you find yourself in the same state as  Paul? What do you make of Mrs. Hills’ counsel?
And others, How would you advice Paul to move on?
I await your inputs.
Thanks for reading😘.

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