God's Will? Hmmmmmm... (Part 1)

Recently I spoke to a friend of mine, Ginger (not her real name obviously), who was rather depressed over the happenings in her life. This is her story: Ginger is a highly educated woman in her late twenties. She has a stable job and earns a respectable income. Ginger has always been apprehensive about love. She didnt feel that she could ever fall in love. Just as all love stories begin, along came man who swept Ginger of her feet , captured her imagination and set her heart so much on fire that she knew that it HAD to be love. And so begins the love story of Ginger who builds a relationship with that man for a couple of years and then tragedy strikes. Ginger is a pious Christian. Her lover, lets call him Fred, is a Hindu albeit a rather lax one. Ginger's concern is the contrictions of her religion. Christianity does not condone inter-religious marriages. Now Ginger was so convinced that this couldnt be God's Will and so they broke up. Its been a year or so since since and yet she has not gotten over him. Now what intrigued me was how God's Will was interpreted by Ginger in this matter. Ginger was sucidally convicted that God had a plan in her life and that this could not be His plan simply because it was against Christian conventions. Makes you wonder doesnt it?

Labels: Conventions, Love