If you would indulge me for just a moment….yesterday my husband and I celebrated 18 years as a couple. Yes, 18 years! We met our sophomore year of high school when he got transferred the second week of school into my creative writing class and sat near me. We happened to have a mutual friend who sat between us and we quickly started talking. Well, if you know my husband, it was more like I started talking and he was forced to listen. He started to talk though and I quickly realized that besides from being really good looking, he was also really funny! If you have ever spent more than, oh I don’t know, 10 minutes with me, than you know I love to laugh! It’s one of those things that people comment on all the time so to find a boy who made me laugh constantly was a huge plus for me. I eventually asked him to sophomore homecoming and he said yes (if only I had been brave enough for it to go that smoothly when in actuality it involved a lot of back and forth and using of our aforementioned mutual friend as the middle man) but the important thing is we did go to homecoming together, October 11, 1997. We have been together ever since. We have a long history but not like other high school sweetheart stories that I know. We never broke up, not even for a little while, in fact we never even fought. It only took me four weeks to realize I was in love with him and I know that many of you are thinking that there is no way I was in love with someone after four weeks when I was only 15 (and I wouldn’t blame you if a 15 year old now told me they were in love I’d be skeptical) but I tell you what I felt for him was strong and powerful and completely real. It was, of course, only a spark of what I feel for him now but it was the same fire.
So, you might be saying, that’s nice but not really what this blog is about, but hear me out. My husband is probably the biggest blessing I have ever received from the Lord. The Lord knew that I needed a solid partner in my life, someone to love me through all the hard times I would face in the coming years, a man I could fully trust and whom I could fully trust to be a good father to my children, a man who would allow me to feel loved and safe like I’d never felt in my life. Someone who I could truly be myself around and who would always take care of my heart. He was there for me when we had a large house fire, when I learned my mom was sick, when I had to leave school to take care of her and when she died, when I had to learn to live on my own at 18 years old. There are moments in my life that I can clearly point out and distinguish as “God moments”; where I can without a doubt, say that God’s love was working in my life and He truly was putting my life into place. Meeting Eric when I did is one of them. I know he has been sent to me by God because only God could make someone so wonderful for me; only God could have made these two people so perfect for each other. What or who has God put in your life that’s so perfect you know it could only be from Him?
So, you might be saying, that’s nice but not really what this blog is about, but hear me out. My husband is probably the biggest blessing I have ever received from the Lord. The Lord knew that I needed a solid partner in my life, someone to love me through all the hard times I would face in the coming years, a man I could fully trust and whom I could fully trust to be a good father to my children, a man who would allow me to feel loved and safe like I’d never felt in my life. Someone who I could truly be myself around and who would always take care of my heart. He was there for me when we had a large house fire, when I learned my mom was sick, when I had to leave school to take care of her and when she died, when I had to learn to live on my own at 18 years old. There are moments in my life that I can clearly point out and distinguish as “God moments”; where I can without a doubt, say that God’s love was working in my life and He truly was putting my life into place. Meeting Eric when I did is one of them. I know he has been sent to me by God because only God could make someone so wonderful for me; only God could have made these two people so perfect for each other. What or who has God put in your life that’s so perfect you know it could only be from Him?