By Bosun Bankole
I was at a youth camp meeting held by our Church on this day and I walked in late to the chapel after the praise worship had started. I was having a great time in God’s presence as the praise worship was great, but, I looked up as if paying attention for the first time to the praise worship leader. I notice he was a young man like myself, handsome for sure and sold out to worship. I caught myself admiring him and I became angry at the praise worship leader for comporting himself in such manner that could earn admiration from an innocent sister like myself.
While still at the camp, I met this brother again in the kitchen the next day. I was no longer angry with him this time around because he greeted me nicely, asked for my name and he introduced himself. We got talking endlessly and saw more of each other for the rest of the camping program. We stayed in touch after camp, became very good friends, maximized every opportunity to meet at future programs and exchanged letters through other brethren.
Prior to meeting Adeyemi, I had this personal motto I apply in dealing with the opposite sex, ‘define every relationship from the start’; this is so that I don’t keep the hopes of anyone high unnecessarily. However, when I met Adeyemi, I was not confident to confront him with my questions on defining the relationship because I liked our friendship and I did not mind keeping his hopes up either.
After some six or eight months of being very good friends, Adeyemi made his intentions known and asked me if I would like to be in a relationship with him. Of course, I said no. He asked me why and although I always had …Read More
Source:: The NET
