What am I, Jim Eliot?

So I'm letting God write my love story, but sometimes I want to ask Him, "What's goin' on up there? Have You got Your head in the clouds again?" I feel a lot like Reiv Teivia in Fiddler on the Roof, "Sometimes, when it gets too quiet up there, I think You say to Yourself, 'What kind of mischeif can I play on my friend Teivia?'"

So I'm an up-front kind of guy...

I wear my heart on my sleeve. I tell it like it is. I don't beat around the bush. I'm a down-to-earth, cut-to-the-chase man. I'd missed my calling as a commentator or an umpire because I "call 'em like I see 'em."

I'm like Jim Eliot, who told Elizabeth how he felt then spent several years at school and in the mission field risking his life, without even seeing her, before he even asked her to marry him. Good story. If you don't know it, go read it in Elizabeth Eliot's Passion in Purity. Jim didn't know what his future would be, he didn't even know if he had a future, but he did know how he felt, that those feelings weren't wrong, and that he couldn't do anything about them until an indefinite amount of time had past. He just came right out and said it; told it like it was. Only God knows if it was more dificult or not because of it, but it came out alright in the end.

So I'll live by this, and you may quote me:

"Quit playing games, and just come right out and say it." - Jonathan A. Bryce

Now I don't want to encourage any false hopes, but thats how it is.