Holding Out For My Hero

[SPOILER ALERT FOR CHRISTY MILLER]
I just recently finished reading the last book in the Katie Weldon Series, Coming Attractions. This book had the biggest impact on me out of the entire collection of Christy Miller, Seirra Jensen, The College Years, and the other two Katie books. (Yes, it is a very long series.) God pretty much pulled the rug out from under me more than once while reading this. But, it was also really cool that I noticed when he was talking to me.

In the book Katie and friend/almost more than a friend Eli Lorenzo drive up to the mountains really early in the morning to watch the sunrise as something spontaneous to do before they graduate from college. On the way they are discussing "successful" relationships, and Eli tells Katie, "A good relationship rolls out naturally and unforced. Like waves. Love comes on its own schedule." That was really amazing to read because just that morning I was at Starbucks with my friend Mackenna, and she was telling me that love just happens, usually when you're not looking. So obviously I was listening to God after that.

Throughout the rest of the book, it was as if it wasn't Katie, but me in every scenario. In the last pages of the book, her best friends, Christy and Todd, tell Katie that she loves Eli, and she hasn't been admitting it to herself. So once she comes to terms at 1:00 in the morning, a dilemma is realized. You see, Eli grew up as a missionary kid in Africa and came to the States to go to college. Well, now that they have graduated, Eli is leaving, and Katie hasn't spoken to him after she yelled at him a few days before. So Katie is convinced that it's all over, she's missed the boat.

That is until Todd comes up with the most spontaneous, on a whim idea Katie would ever face - Get on the six o'clock plain to Nairobi with Eli, and see what God has waiting for them on the other side of the world. And as insane as it seemed, it also seemed completely sane and fixed by God. Katie didn't have any family to stay with, she had inheritance money for the plane ticket, all of her belongings could fit in the back seat of her car, she had been immunized for yellow fever and malaria when she thought she wanted to go to Africa on vacation, and she loved Eli.

So at six o'clock in the morning, Katie is waiting for Eli at the Security check in the Airport. When he saw her, in all that fictional climatic amazingness, I was in tears. Tears of joy, for this fictional person that I had grown up with since the seventh grade, and joy knowing that God had a plan for me. I am a girl, and as a girl, dreaming of my fairy tale is embedded in my genetics. But as Katie and Eli boarded the plain together, I saw that God could top any fairy tale I came up with in my head. The story he is writing for me is more quirkier, wild, funny, awkward, and creative than I can fathom, and I'm looking forward to it.

Throughout the 30-book collection of Christy Miller and friends, Christy and Katie always say that they are holding out for a hero, the man that God is molding for them. I hold purity near and dear to my heart, and I love that saying - holding out for a hero. So if you are a girl reading this right now, never settle for less than God's best for you life. He's got a Hero out there for you.