Melissa: Please Read

In the midst of a rough time in my life last week, I took an opportunity to trail run at Lake Texana and did a quick devotional afterward at the edge of water. When I got back to my car there was a missed text:

"A beautiful life does not just happen, it is built daily by prayer, humilty, sacrifice and love. May that beautiful life be yours always. God is Love Lgunna"

{This was a noteable occurence because I did not know the number, had checked my phone when I went to the car to grab my Bible and so the message had arrive while I was praying, and because there was essentially no cell phone service where I was. I thought to simply accept this message as a nice gift from God no matter who it came from.. but curiostity eventually got the best of me. The moral of this story, if you are short on patience for such a long post, is leave well enough alone, and let yourself believe the best.}

So, once I made it back to the highway and cell phone coverage, I responded:

ben: tell me more

Lgunna: Wut u mean ???

ben: i was just hoping for more nice words

Lgunna: O I got u du u kno who this is ??? Nd I have plenty of nice words

ben: do i need to know who you are?

Lgunna: Yes !!!

ben: do i get clues?

Lgunna: Umm u prolly dnt remember but I met u outside skybar about 3weeks ago

{Having not been to skybar, I am sure now I do not know this person, but also having a long drive ahead of me, all through counties without anti-texting-while-you-drive laws on the books, this is too intriguing to drop.}

ben: Why would i not remember

Lgunna: So r u sayn that u remember

ben: was that your only clue?

Lgunna: No I sat outside on the steps with u 4 about 30 min nd talkd with u dark skind man

ben: Got a pic?

Lgunna: Of course gotta email

ben: im on the road though

Lgunna: I mite b able 2 send it 2 ur fone if it has a @wut ever company u have

ben: what did we talk about

Lgunna: Ummm honestly I dnt quite remember I kno we had a nice convo

ben: Did we talk about god?

Lgunna: Shoot mabe

ben: did i volunteeer my number ordid you ask for it?

Lgunna: Volunteered it

ben: Describe me

Lgunna: U was bout 5'7 wit heals mid color skin brown eyes thin figure

{Sadly this is when I finally realize I am flirtexting with a man. Going back through the messages, I realized "dark skinned man was an interjected self descriptor, not a decription of me in my pseudo identity.}

ben: did i seem into you?

Lgunna: Yes

Lgunna: Names melissa or @ least dats wut u told me it was

ben: Was I really drunk?

Lgunna: No actually u seemd pretty sober

ben: Since I vounteered the number though you may have just missaved it

Lgunna: naw I'm sure I didn't sweetheart

{Insert here a brief Ace-Ventura-toilet-plunger-to-the-texting-mouth moment on account of having been called a sweetheart by a man.}

ben: The facts dont add up as to how i felt about you... on one side i was sober and willing to talk for 30min to you... on the other hand i gave you a bogus number

ben: Maybe I told you 713 not 281?

Lgunna: So whom I discribed is not u name or nuttn

ben: very unlikely

ben:At the very least i am taller than you described... im checking out the 713 number for you though.. no reply so far

{I did actually check the other number variation, thinking how cool it would be to hook this guys up with the right girl, but got no reply when I asked for Melissa.}

Lgunna: I mean I stood up nd we were bout eye 2 eye

ben: Im not really that dark either

Lgunna: Neither did I

When I got home, I looked this guy up.. on Myspace his mood was set to "numb," and had a blue frowny face icon next to it to show this. He seemed like a nice guy from what I could tell... so Melissa, wherever you are, if you are willing to give him another chance, let me know and I will forward his number to you.