God is writing my love story

It all began my freshman year of college.  I had been dating a guy for the past four years.  After finding out that he had been cheating on me, that relationship ended.  I felt lost because I had not been single in such a long time.  I began dating different guys just to date but none were really serious.

I had a math class pretty early in the morning my first semester.  I would always get to class early and sit outside with different people.  That is where I meet my now good friend Morgan.  We would talk about just about everything.  Well through her I meet this guy name Jake.  There always seemed to be something different about him.  So I decided to write him to let him know that I liked him.

Well Jake said he liked me too but never really made a effort.  Until the next semester I got an e-mail from him asking me out on a date.  So we went out and had a really good time.  It was my first real date with a nice guy.  The night ended and we both agreed we would like to do it again sometime.  I never did hear from him though which kind of let me down.  So I began to date around.

A good friend of Jake’s name Chad added me on myspace and we would talk about Jake and different things.  I mentioned to him that I really wanted to find a good church to start going to.  So he invited to go to their church High Hill.  Well I decided to go one Wednesday night.  Somehow Jake found out that I was going and asked if he could pick me and my friend up since we really didn’t know where it was.

That is where I found my new church home.  I loved everything about the church.  It is a small church with a fairly big youth group.  Everyone likes to hang out and not just on church nights.  They do a lot together and it seems like a big extended family.  So that is where I started to go to church.

Well even though I was going to church my roommate, Jessica, and me would go out and do things that weren’t right.  We would party, go to clubs and bars, drink from time to time, and such.  I started talking to a guy that I knew wasn’t right for me but I figured I would give him a chance at least.  

One night I went with the youth group to a concert.  I don’t even remember who the band was or what was said but that night something changed instead of me.  It was like God spoke to me and said “What are you doing?  You know this isn’t my plan for your life.  What are you doing wasting your time with guy?  Get out of this situation before you make a mess.”  So that night I decided to step away from that life and start being real.  For so long I had gotten use to not being me and being fake.  I would go to church or put on this good act of happiness when deep down I was hurting.  It wasn’t an easy act.  There were many nights of tears.  Through the help of Jessica and Chad I was able to get through it though.

I decided to step away from that guy and any other guy.  I knew for the time being God wanted me to be alone.  I needed to find my place.  That is when out of the blue God showed me his plan for my life.  No, it didn’t happen over night.  Revealed piece by piece was this amazing plan that just fit in everyway.

As I was building my relationship with God and trying to figure out who the real me was, I began to grow a good friendship with Chad.  I just felt like I could tell him anything.  No matter what I said he understood and didn’t judge me that is what I loved.  I never really thought of him more than a friend until one night a joke between two friends made me think.

Late one night I was out with Jessica and for some reason I started texting Chad.  I knew he and the guys from church were going to the beach in a day or so.  So I texted him to mess with him by saying “Don’t cheat on me while you are at the beach.”  So through about a hour of text messages, I began to realize that the feeling I had for him was stronger than a friendship.  
 
From that point on, we began to talk as more than friends but never did move beyond that for a while.  We had several inside jokes about how he was my Spiderman and I was his Mary Jane.  Our first group date was when we went out with some of the youth group to see Spiderman III.  We just began to have fun and get to know each other a lot better.  

After church on Wednesday nights, we would always sit on the back of his truck and talk for hours.  Things just seemed to click.  We began to really pray and wonder if this is what God wanted for us.  We stayed in the “talking” stage for at least two months.  

One night after church we had our first kiss.  It is something I will never forget.  He asked me if he could kiss me and I said sure.  Then he said he didn’t want it to be awkward which made it awkward.  He is such a dork at times but in a cute way.  I’ve never really had butterflies around a guy the way I do when I am with him.

Well after our first kiss a couple days later on June 4th we became official.  We started our relationship.  I would definitely describe our relationship different because we don’t fuss and argue like a lot of couples.  We just don’t let small stuff get in between us.  We know our relationship is from God and that things will work out.  

For a long time, we had been talking about getting engaged.  Finally we made steps for that to come true.  We went ring shopping and found a perfect ring.  He went and talked to my parents.  And on June 4th, we got engaged.

He had went earlier that day to talk to my parents about it.  After that, he came back to his house where I was waiting to hear the news.  They took everything good so I knew it was a matter of time before he would ask me.  I didn’t know it would be that day though.  We decided before church we would go ride the golf cart together.  After riding for a while, we started for the house to get ready for church.  We were half way to the house when he got down on one knee and asked me to marry him.  It was that perfect moment.  Everything just seemed right.  The sun was beginning to set and it was very sweet and private.  

Now we are planning a wedding for June 7th.  God is continuing to write our love story.  I know married life won’t always be perfect but I know God has a way for us.  We will survive whatever life throws at us.  This love story will never end.