Maybe its just the sappy movie I just watched (We Bought a Zoo) - but I've been contemplating on this a lot anyways. The basis of it all is that I am grateful - so very grateful - to have the husband I have. My family and friends weren't exactly always in agreement with my "decision," but I knew it was the right one.
Ray and I actually "met" each other through a chat room (when those were still around) back in 2004. We started talking to each other for a couple of months. Honestly, at that point in my life I had met SO many guys offline - that I considered Ray to be "just another guy." Our first official meeting was at a Chevron gas station in Richardson. The words I can still remember from that night are - "you look good, you smell good - is there anything not good about you?" (quoted from Ray himself.) My friend Jenny was with me that night. She thought he was creepy. I remember telling her that I thought something was different about him, but I couldn't explain what.
Ray was my first valentine. We had our first kiss in the Olive Garden parking lot in Plano.
We said our first "I love you's" a couple weeks later. And now, nearly eight years later, I'm still saying it.
We have had our ups and downs, as all relationships do. Even when I was strayed away from the Lord, I'm grateful that He hadn't strayed away from me. God was always leading and directing my life - so that when I was willing to accept Him again, His plans for me were perfect.
Like I said - my family and friends didn't always agree with my "decision" to stay with Ray (they got over it, by the way). But because I was a believer - because I'm a child of God - I'm with the man I love. My opposite - my best friend - my hero. I love my husband, and I'm so blessed to have him.
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