The college junior who used to live at our house (our youngest daughter) and now attends Houston Baptist University came home for spring break. She brought an ex-boyfriend home with her, someone we have met several times. They are just good friends now, really good friends. How he manages this I’m not sure because the 5 words no man wants to hear is, “We can still be friends.”
Gustavo plays soccer for HBU (NCAA, D1 school) and goes by Gus (pronounced Goose). Gus is from Brazil and speaks 3 or 4 languages.
The college junior has had other boyfriends, none that I really cared for—not that they weren’t nice guys, it’s just no one is really good enough for your kids, right? The college junior told Gus before we ever met that her dad doesn’t ever like any of her boyfriends, therefore he needed to be prepared.
That’s been true except I like Gus. I think we were all shocked, but no one more than me. Maybe it’s the slightly used official HBU soccer windbreaker (you can only get this jacket if you are on the team, it’s the real deal, I love it and am tempted to sleep in it every night) he gave me the first time we met. Maybe, it’s that he really likes Klaire.
I have a little tour of the community that I take visitors on, It includes First Baptist Church where we got married, the houses we grew up in, my dad’s old church, Tiger Field and its history (3 state championships, Go Aycock Tigers!) and how the back of the high school used to be the front, blah, blah, blah.
We took Gus on the tour. Later he told Klaire he was coming back and they were going to get married in the First Baptist Church. This dude is so after my heart, I can’t think of anything better than Klaire getting married where her mother and I got married. Another piece of D1 soccer swag could seal the deal except for one thing. Does Gus know Jesus?
Klaire knows better than to shop down the non-Christian aisle for a husband but the soccer player from Brazil, just like all of us, has to answer the question, “Who is Jesus to you? (Mark 8:29)”
This young man is leaving HBU next year to play soccer in Pennsylvania. We may never see him again, but I hope so. I told him he always has a place to stay with us. I’m not sure he understood but he shook his head. After all, English is his 3rd or 4th language. BTW, who is Jesus to you?
He asked me to ask you that.
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