Resurrected Soul Part II

Hosea 13:14a  "I will ransom them from the power of the grave:  I will redeem them from death..."

     Daniel's younger days were his only source of comfort.  High School had been kind to Daniel in an otherwise unkind, scathing environment.  He excelled not only in sports but in acedemics as well.  People were often heard saying "There goes a boy with lots of potential." or "Daniel will go far in sports."  But he did not go far in sports.  He ended up working in a machine shop on the west side of town.  It was all worth it, he figured at the time.
      Fresh out of High School, Daniel thought that he had life all figured out.  He had met a girl that intrigued him and he had fallen hard.  Lisa.  Lisa was full of life.  She was everything Daniel was not. 
     "Stable and boring."  Those were the words she used to describe him, but she made Daniel feel alive in a way he had never experienced before.  No one had ever had the effect on him that she did.  Lisa ran with the fast crowd that partied alot.  Daniel, thus far, had stayed away from that seedy side of life, but she eventually dragged him in, nothing really anchoring him to the straight side of life.  And it was that wild abandon in her that drew him to her like a magnet.
     Daniel sighed.  No matter how hard he tried, his thoughts always led back to her.  Her long blonde hair, blue eyes that sparkled like the sun on a crystal blue lake, and a vibrant personality that drew more than just him to her.  That's where their trouble started.  Guys just wouldn't leave her alone.  And she seemed to feed off of their attention.  A free spirit is what she called herself.
     "Oh, Daniel, " she would laugh, "I can't tie myself down to just one person right now, but I will always love you." 
     Daniel laughed bitterly at the memory of her words.  Love.  A word that was used so flippantly, yet had such deep meaning.
     The bus he had gotten on chugged down the now thinning street.  He would soon be home.  Dark and empty.  Daniel hated going home now that Lisa was gone.  She had moved in with him for a couple of months, but moved back out, saying she needed more space.  The arrangement had cramped her lifestyle.  Daniel soon after found out all about her lifestyle and it had devastated him.

(posting more later today...)