Just another day in Seminary

I spent an hour today trying to convince a man that I was not going to be his wife, and in fact had no interest in dating him, and furthermore, did not believe that God was telling me anything to the contrary. "An hour?", you ask, "that's a long time to turn down a proposal!" Well, although the conversation was tiresome, it was just ludicrous enough to keep me from walking away. The arguments that he was using to convince me to give him a chance were borderline ridiculous.

Now, you might be saying to yourself: "This was it, Mel! This was your big chance to tie the knot! What were you thinking?" Well, before you get too judgemental, this was only my fourth conversation with him, so things really felt a bit rushed to me. He felt perfectly comfortable with rapidly moving ahead with the relationship considering we were both believers as well as being male and female respectively, but I felt there must be some other criteria. He did not share this point of view and expressed agitation at my continued statement of "I don't know you, you don't know me".

"You know my name, you know I live close to here, and you know I am a believer!" he retorted.

"As the Latin American proverb says: One sparrow does not make spring!" I quoted back.

Okay, so I didn't really say that back, but maybe I would have if I could think that fast on my feet.