Breaking up is hard to do

I arrived slightly late to our junior and senior high youth night this evening, but it wasn’t too late for one of my favorite highschool girls on the planet. She has been very close to our family and has travelled with us on speaking trips to help take care of our three kids.

Any way, when she saw me pulling up to the YMCA, where our Sunday Night Live events are held, she came quickly outside to greet me before I could make it into the building.

Her eyes were already pretty watery and I could tell something was wrong. So like a lot of well intentioned men, I asked, “Is something wrong?”

She then preceded to tell me that she had just broken up with her boyfriend of over six months (a record for her). I asked what went wrong and she responded, “We just weren’t on the same spiritual level.”

Of course, I tried to contain my enthusiasm, not because I didn’t like the boy, but because she was already learning at 17 how to be a mature person and how to honor God and herself in her dating relationships.

The root of her breaking up was literally that she didn’t feel he desired a close relationship with God. I asked her what event got her to realize this point, and she said with a smile, “Your book!” I was actually very suprised, because Amy and I are still not used to having a book out and it atually impacting lives, but here was the proof standing right infront of me

It was the chapter on character qualities that helped nudge her in the right direction in her relationship. And I hope her courage to make the tough decision encourages you to think about your current boyfriend or girlfriend. It’s never too late to make a good decision.

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