Jul 24th, 2005 by Jesse Moore
The Wonder Years
Six weeks ago I got an email – the kind of email that I think everyone secretly hopes they’ll get (the unexpected), but no amount of preparation can prepare you for the message or its source. The storyline is on the back of a hundred video rentals – two kids (a boy and a girl of course) meet at bible camp, promise to write, and over the next six years they do, meeting occassionally every six to eight months when circumstances allow. Together they grow from children into adults, and their relationship evolves from platonic to romantic, both of them too afraid to sacrifice the last six years of friendship for the promise of a long-distance romance. That is, until the girl comes to visit, promises true love, then leaves on a missions trip to Romania. Best part is, while there, she falls in love with a priest and tries desperately to block her return to the states. The boy, unaware, writes a letter a week until her return.
That was ten years ago. Six weeks ago I got an email from her after she came across my site online. She was a little nervous, but anxious for reconciliation, which I readily gave her.
If you do a search on Google for Jesse Moore I don’t show up for five pages. However, if you did a search for “World’s Ugliest Dog” a few weeks ago, my site was the number one result. I guess that leaves me to wonder how she got to my site in the first place…
It’s funny to me how God has a way of helping us along when we think we have life all planned out. Its usually not funny untill later in life, and can even test the limits of our sanity. I guess Ive seen enough of it in my life and the lives of those close to me, that I am occasionally able to see it happening sooner rather than (1,5,10) years later.
Talk about a head trip. We were talking about this very same thing last night with a friend following our Bible study. Many of us have been wounded and/or have wounded others… and we come to the realization later (sometimes years later) that we need to either fully forgive the wrong inflicted against us or that we need to ask forgiveness of those whom we’ve deeply hurt. From what you’ve posted, this girl has done something that I’ve wished to do for many years: contact an old flame to apologize for past words and actions. It’s amazing that she found you… searching on ugliest dog or Jesse Moore.