I am dead away bored out of my mind. At least I know what my problem is. I believe I shall tell a story.

There was a time, a little over a year in length, where I found myself comfortably stimulated mentally. In other words, I wasn't bored to death. Quite the opposite was true. I was actually excited time and again, that doesn't happen to me often. The source of this excitement (no kidding) was a girl. To preserve her privacy, we shall refer to her as "Ricochet" Now, Ricochet was no ordinary young woman. I owe much of what my Spiritual life is now to God working through her. She was/is an amazing young woman. If it had been possible I'd have seriously considered her to be a potential girlfriend. I don't say that lightly. I've never had a girlfriend and it takes a lot for me to be really attracted to a girl. But she definitely had it all. She was a true Jesus follower, she was probably smarter than me, she was a writer(an extremely skilled one at that), and to top it all off, she was as much of a Star Wars fan as I am.

The only problem was that we never actually met. I met her on the StarWars.com message boards. Right away, I could tell she was something special. Even without actually seeing her. I think she noticed something about me too because she ended up putting me into a story she was writing. She gave the excuse that I had a cool Star Wars name, but I think there was something else there. It took her about a year to write the story, and I assisted her with it over email. Those were exciting times. Some of the most fun I've ever had was emailing her about her story and seeing how it panned out. She was an awesome writer. The story was eventually finished, and it was a true masterpiece. I'll still never delete it from my computer.

But you know what they say about "all good things". I had known that it was God's will that we cut off communication for almost six months before it happened. I had learned what I had needed to learn from her. But still I hoped, foolishly, that we might meet in person. But it was not to be. We parted, both knowing that it had been the right thing to do.

But still, I don't think I'm completely over her. Every so often I think about how good it was and imagine how completely awesome it would be to just sit down with her in a corner booth somewhere and talk our heads off about Jesus and Star Wars. I would be happy with that.
I told her that I hoped we'd get to meet in Heaven. But I still wish that we might someday be able to meet down here.
So yeah, without people like Ricochet in my life, I'm dead away bored out of my mind.

But God is still good. All the time. There aint nobody better!