My Gift in the Mail... My story continued

To all those who waited all summer for the continuation of my story, here it is. To recap, Pastor Russ was the youth pastor in Cleveland, at a church I was attending. He just said his final goodbyes and left for Pittsburgh. I thought I would never see him again. During his two week interim Florida vacation before relocating to Pittsburgh, I received a small envelope with balloons on it in the mail. Inside was a book by Max Lucado and a birthday card from "PR". I was really surprised that he thought of me!

In the card, he wrote that he had picked up the book at the airport for me and hoped I had a nice birthday. Then he wrote that he would stop to see me before he left for Pittsburgh. I showed the card to my friend Deana, who had know PR for a long time. She was all giggles. She said he just doesn't do this for anyone. This "is something." I blew it off as a nice gesture.

Although, I really was looking forward to his promise of seeing him one last time.

The day came for PR to come home form the airport, gather the last of his few bachelor belongings and head to Pittsburgh in his little black Jetta Volkswagen. I called Deana to see if he had arrived. She said, "Oh, he already came, got his stuff and left for Pittsburgh." Inside, I felt a little pain in my heart, then went back to work at the mall kiosk.