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A month after Rich buried their love letters, both he and Christy left home for colleges in different parts of the country. They didn’t say goodbye. They didn’t write or call each other. Because their schools had different schedules, they didn’t see each other during the year. Those were difficult days. The love they felt for each other hadn’t gone away.

A year and a half after they’d broke up, Christy called her mom from school and told her that she was still struggling with her feelings for Rich. When her dad found out, he asked if she knew how Rich was doing. “How would I know?” Christy answered, the emotion in her voice thinly veiled. “I haven’t talked to him since we broke up.”

Her dad was impressed. Rich had stuck to his word and broken off communication with Christy. Mike decided to intervene once more. A few months later, when Rich was home from college, Mike called and asked him to come to his office.

“I had no idea what he wanted to talk to me about,” Rich says. “I thought I must be in trouble, but I couldn’t imagine what I’d done.”

As I turned out, Rich wasn’t in trouble. Mike wanted to meet him to thank him for keeping his word. He also wanted to tell him that he felt it was an appropriate time for Rich and Christy to begin a courtship.

Rich was floored. He told Mike that he needed time to pray about it. “Well, next week I have to go down to Richmond,” Mike told him. “Why don’t you drive me down, and we can talk about it then?”

A week later Rich and Mike were on the road again. It was just like old times. And it was time for another talk.

Rich had prayed hard that week about starting a relationship with Christy again. But as he sought God, he sensed Him saying that it still wasn’t the right time for a courtship. “I still wasn’t ready to get married. I was still figuring out what I’d be doing for a living. It seemed that God was saying, ‘You committed to these principles, and you need to stick to them even if her dad is giving you the green light.’”

When Rich shared this with Christy’s dad, Mike couldn’t have been more surprised or more pleased. It was as though their roles had been reversed since their first talk about wisdom and romance. This time it was the young man who sharing what God had taught him about waiting for the right time.

Written By: Joshua Harris

From his Book: BOY MEETS GIRL (Say Hello to Courtship)

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