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A Love Story

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This is a parable told by Andrew Greeley in one of his mystery novels:3

Once upon a time there was this boy, a senior in college, who had a total crush on a young woman who was a junior. She was totally gorgeous and very smart and also very nice, like, I mean, she never got drunk, you know? She was so pretty and so popular and so cool that our hero couldn’t believe that she even noticed his existence. A lot of his friends would go, "That chick really is crazy about you," but he thought they were just making fun of him. And some of her friends were like, "She’d really enjoy going out with you."

But our hero, who was a very shy boy (all boys are shy even if they don’t act that way, but he was very, very shy) thought that they were making fun of him too. His family had made a lot of fun of him when he was growing up, you see. Well, the young woman, whose name was Fiona, sat next to him in American Lit class and talked to him before and after class (about American Lit naturally) and stopped to talk to him when she met him on campus (about American Lit or about the women’s basketball team on which she played), and about all he could do was reply with animal noises like he was a freshman in high school. You see, he thought she was making fun of him too!

Well, she kind of hung around his family at graduation and they thought she was totally cool. His mother was like, "That young woman is in love with you and you’re a total retard (that’s the way people talked when his mother was in college) if you let her get away." He thought his mother was making fun of him too. So he’s like, "She doesn’t care about me at all." And his mother goes, "There’s no one so blind as he who will not see."

My story has to end here, alas. Except I must tell you that Fiona represents God.

Seek the Lord while you can find him. Call on him now while he is near. (Isaiah 55:6 NLT)

Dear Heavenly Father, please help me to find You and open myself to your great love for me. Help me to know that wherever I go, whatever I do, whatever I think—you are always there loving me. Amen.

Questions for consideration...
  1. Make a list of the ways Fiona represents God in the story.
  2. Make a list of the different ways the boy used to reject Fiona.
  3. How many of these rejections have I used to reject God and other people? Why?
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