The Return

This vision-message is a witness pointing to what's coming.  It aches for the coming--it can hardly wait!  And it doesn't lie.  If it seems slow in coming, wait.  It's on its way.  It will come right on time. - Habakkuk 2:3 The Message

It's been almost six months, but I have returned.  And so did she, sort of.

We had just ended our May 25th bible study and we were saying our goodbyes when one of the members of the group said it was put on her heart to share Habakkuk 2:3.  She didn't know why, but only that somebody needed to hear it.  As soon as she had finished reading it, I claimed it for me and my relationship with Rebekah.  I felt like God was using her to speak to me.

I usually worship at my church on Saturday nights, but I was meeting with some friends for lunch on Sunday so I opted to go to the 11 am service.  After the service a friend and I were hanging around waiting for others in our group.  She had gone to get some coffee and as I was standing and waiting for her, Rebekah, wearing a pink blouse and black slacks, walked past me not more than ten feet away.  My friend returned and I told her "she who shall not be named" had just walked past me and I pointed her out, about forty feet away talking to some friends.  She asked me if I wanted to go up to her and start talking to her, but I said no.  We did walk past her and her friends as we walked into the church's bookstore to kill more time waiting for our friends.

I walked around briefly, looking at the selection of CD's and DVD's and realized that I wanted to get the DVD of the last service that the choir sang at.  I was standing at the display of, and searching through, the service CD's and DVD's when out of the corner of my eye I noticed the partial form of someone with blonde hair wearing a pink blouse and black slacks on the other side of the display.  I went back to my browsing and when I turned to my left, that person was standing just two feet away from me.

It was Rebekah.  Did she follow me into the bookstore?  Was this just fate or was this a divine appointment?

We made small chit-chat talking about what had been going on in our lives.  I felt uneasy and nervous in the beginning, and I think she felt the same way too.  I had a death grip on my bible as I held it to my chest.  My friend came over and asked if I was doing okay and I said I was fine (she later told me it was to give me an out from the encounter if I needed it).  As we spoke though, I became more at ease and she seemed to relax as well and even smiled a few times.  It became time to leave and I said I'd see her later (I don't like saying goodbye).

I heard it, I claimed it and God made it happen in His time.  To be continued...