This was my third attempt at
getting the attention of this
beautiful usher; I would have said
fourth attempt but I didn’t really
make any attempt at getting her
attention on the first day I set my eyes on her. I basically spent the
first day admiring this beautiful
young lady. She met all the
physical attributes I have always
admired in ladies and would want
my woman to have. The height is right, the body shape is one in
town, wonderfully and fearfully
made, her complexion is simply
cherry on the cake, her, ermm,
chest region must have been the
type that was painstakingly described in Songs of Solomon. If
you have read that passage of the
bible, you will have a clearer
picture of what I am talking about.
Everything on her was screaming
very loud at me and I responded ”this is my beloved woman, I shall
come after you after service. Look
at you, I know what you are
thinking already, ”is that what I go
to church to do?” No, that is not
what I normally do in services but since I told myself it’s time to settle
down, my antenna is super
sensitive and alive and what other
better place to get a lady other than
in a church. That’s me o. I don’t
know about others. I was still making a mental
calculation of how I was going to
approach her when she walked
down to our side of the aisle.
Apparently, she had two aisles to
serve and control, ours was one of them. Before long, she started
distributing some flyers for a
special event coming up the
following Sunday. I was sitting at
the beginning of our row, meaning
that all things being equal, she was most likely going to come to me
with some of the flyers so I could
extend to other members sitting on
the same row with me. I was right,
she approached me, smiled and
handed me a bunch of flyers. It was too sudden for me, I hadn’t
really made up my mind exactly
what to say to her when she
arrived. I collected the flyers from
her and did the needful. She
walked away from me and moved further up. This usher really looked
good. My eyes were almost fixated
at her as she walked up. ”I will not
let this slip through my fingers,” I
assured myself. After all, we have
been accused in the past by the pastor of not looking very well
when we come to church. He was
addressing a recent trend in the
church where most guys go out to
marry ladies from other churches.
Here I was, a bachelor, ready to start something serious with any
lady that meets some of the
qualities I was looking for. I hadn’t
spoken nor interacted with her but
in terms of the physical qualities,
she looked like the path and I really wanted to open up a
conversation. However, the
challenge was, how do I really get
the attention of this busy usher-
lady in a crowded congregation?
Luckily for me, the pastor hadn’t started the day’s sermon, there
were other regular church activities
going on. You won’t believe what I did next, I
bowed my head and said a quick
prayer. ”God please send this lady
down to this side and please give
the courage to make move and the
right word to say to her.” I wasn’t sure of what I did, I don’t know if I
should have called that a prayer or
my wish sounding very loud in
church. However, it wasn’t longer,
the lady turned and started walking
down towards us. Typical of their duty, she was scanning the the
rows as she walked down as if
she was looking for something
untoward or for someone who
would ask for her help. Well, I was
in need of her help but not the regular kind of help she had been
trained to offer to the congregation.
As she got closer, I stuck out my
little finger; the finger wasn’t so
high but it was high enough to be
seen or get her attention. She acknowledged she had seen my
finger with a nod and then
increased her pace towards me.
”What are you doing, this man?”
My mind quipped. There was no
time to answer my mind or to start contemplating what I was doing,
the deed had been done and the
lady was already on flight towards
me. Before she got to my seat, I
quickly brought out my card and
scribbled a few words at the back of the card. I was church, what
other better place to practice ”seek
and you shall find”? ”Hi lovely lady,
can I see you briefly immediately
after service?” That was what I
scribbled at the back of the card. Again, luckily for me, the flyers
were in excess and the remainder
had been returned to me, so I was
supposed to hand them over to the
usher. I quickly placed my card on
top of the flyers before she got to my seat. As she bent to collect the
flyers from me, I requested to
whisper something to her. She
bent her ears towards me, ”I have
scribbled something at the back of
my card. Thank you.” She did not utter a word, she collected the
flyers and the card from me and
walked away. Some minutes later when the
congregation was dancing to the
medley of praises from the lead
singer, the usher walked back and
handed the card I had given her
earlier on to me with a smile. I couldn’t tell what the smile was for.
I also couldn’t read what she had
scribbled immediately, there was a
woman on our row who I think
knew what was going already. I
looked at her direction only for me to catch her looking at me. I waited
until praise time was over to look at
the card. ”Walk in the spirit and
you will not fulfill the lust of the
flesh,” she had replied. What a
response! I wasn’t walking in the flesh. These church people know
how to use bible passages to hit
one hard sha. When the service
ended, the usher had disappeared
from her position. I went home not
totally disappointed, at least I had broken inertia. To be continued
