my favorite walk...

Nine years ago...the Lord confirmed once again that He was near, heard my cries, longed to meet those deep desires in my soul...and that He was intertwining the life of Christopher and myself.


I had recently transferred schools. Since I had been ,there I had heard wonderful things about Christopher-he loved Jesus, a Texan who drove a truck and wore cowboy boots, went to love on orphans during his Christmas vacation, handsome, sweetest smile, quarterback, kind, and Bible study leader. Let's just say, he was the BMOC!! For several months, our paths had not crossed but on April 1st we FINALLY met and since then, we were running into each other all over campus. It was always my favorite part of the day, and of course I would return to the dorm to tell my roomies the good news. We had some wonderful conversations...and I just longed and prayed that our friendship would grow.


One night after dinner, I was walking home and spotted his car outside of a girls dorm. My heart was crushed. My mind wandered to all the possibilities: maybe he was picking up some notes for class, maybe his car just happen to break down right at that spot, or maybe he liked someone else?? I decided to go for a walk and tell the Lord that though I thought we were meant to be together, if not...then I needed His help t0 let go of this big crush. Ends up he was just picking something up from a friend. It's funny that now I can't even remember the details :) All I know is that there was no liking of anyone else.

I went to a little chapel on campus and prayed. The time was cut short as these little red bugs got all over my khakis as I sat down on the bench outside :) I walked through our student center and there he was, sitting with a buddy. He asked me to sit down, this was a huge step for him. His buddy soon left and we continued to chat. As we were leaving he had the greatest line, "Which way are you going?" i replied, "this way". He answered, "Well, than maybe we can walk together." Aww, still makes me smile. He walked me back to my dorm and asked for my number that night. Our friendship blossomed, we went on our first date (fishing) and spent the last few weeks of school with lots of late nights studying for finals and such. I think its pretty amazing that one of our favorite spots was the prayer room on campus that was a map of the world. I am pretty sure, he sat under AFRICA and I sat under ASIA...even then the Lord was giving us some insight into our years to come.

Today, we took a walk and recalled how the Lord had drawn us together that night nine years ago. My heart rejoices each day that I am able to live life with this man. I am overcome by immense gratitude and unworthiness to our Savior for the privilege to be his wife. Life with Christopher is: joyful, fun, fulfilling, disciplined, stretching, adventurous, encouraging, passionate, growing, sweet and filled with LOVE. He is an incredible husband and dad!! I absolutely love my life.One of our first pictures together

2001

When I ask the boy's to give hugs, this is usually what happens.Baby boy on the slide, such a brave one.

Our brilliant engineer

This is adorable as this was Christopher's snoopy when he was a little boy.