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Have you ever had a soul mate? Someone you could spend every waking moment
of your day with and never get tired of? Someone you want to give your
life to? That's how I felt about a friend of mine in college.
I was going through some tough times emotionally, spiritually and mentally at a highly competitive college. As many of you who have chosen a path in engineering know, it's no cakewalk.
I was sitting (practically sleeping) in "Electromagnetics" one morning when an ice cold Coke was placed in front of me. I followed the hand on the can up to a beautiful pair of blue eyes and a smiling face. He whispered below the professor's words, "Here, this always helps me--I wouldn't dare come to this class without one!"
I muffled a laugh and accepted his offering. After class we started talking and decided to meet later to work on the impossible problem sets for the class. I came to find out that Brian (as I'll call him) was in a few of my other impossible classes, so we planned to work on those together too. The next thing I knew, we were spending hours upon hours together every day. I looked forward to our study sessions and actually began to enjoy school, even "Electromagnetics"!
This brilliant, sweet, charming guy had many qualities that I absolutely admired. Before I realized it, he had stolen my heart. Brian actually reminded me a lot of my dad with his tall stature, dark hair and dry humor. My time with him was the best part of my day.
We began talking about deeper topics like evolution, and what happens after you die. The thought occurred to me that God may be working with Brian. I was even more excited at that point because we had become such close friends and it would truly be wonderful to become more than that. Our discussions continued over months and he seemed to be very interested in aspects of our religion that are so different from others.
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