Love is in the air..continued

So I've read and re-read the first entry to the "L4LIATWP" and it didn't paint a very pretty picture of my young life. The good news is this..God loved me all along and paved a way for me to come back to Him.

He used my now dear husband, then "Mr. W" to do so.

The wonderful part of "going back" is seeing how God's hand was there all along.

After asking my dh what he re-called..his story was allot like mine when we first met..

but then he told me, I had caught his eye earlier in the evening. Cool (giggle..giggle) I knew it wasn't just me!

So now for the rest of the story..

After having danced a few more times that evening, conversation began and flowed very easily after the "said prayer", he had arrived with a few girlfriends from HS and asked them to get a ride home because he wanted to spend more time talking with me. I explained to my girlfriend that I wasn't ready to leave and she was shocked. I also sent my family the "look" that said "I've just met the best thing ever"..they left me alone as they all were happy to see me "move on".

For the rest of the night we sat out under the moon by the river talking about how he had just moved back home from finishing Aviation training and was currently serving in the Air force Reserves. (this being why..he was so "officer and the gentlemen" type) Talk this was ALL we did, and it was the first for me? Didn't think any guys liked to talk w/out their hands?

We realized we had some common ground due to his little brother, who I had gone to school with since 2ND grade and then he told of how he thought we had met a few years earlier while I was dating "the one who took my heart" and that started yet another conversation.

After revisiting the past and then talking about his plans for a future.

He took me home and stayed a little later into the morning (yep..still TALKING).

I kid you not, this guy who said "sure" at the beginning didn't leave till dawn the next day, and didn't even ask for a kiss, nothing!

I was confused to say the least..I thought" well there goes Mr. Wonderful, guess I wasn't his type."

Only, later that afternoon..he called!

You know what he wanted to do?

Play tennis and talk some more!

On the third date we finally kissed and I realized then that it was as it should be, courtship.

We dated through my senior year of HS and then I moved away.

So at 19yrs. of age I cried homesick and my dm said "I've raised you and now it's your turn to swim or sink" I didn't have a place to go back to, told my "knight in shining armor" I wanted to be with him..his plans were firm.

Remember those plans I told you we talked about into the wee early morning hours, well.. they were set in stone. :0/

{He would have to date for more then three years to the one then he would marry and even then he would be 25yrs. old before this happened (even said he wouldn't have his first child till he was 28yrs. -turned out to be True) }

So he persuaded me to go back to my roots, the home where I learned about Jesus love and forgiveness. He was an instrument in reconciling me with my dad and my relationship with GOD.

I trusted no other but him and this is what he wanted me to do..so I did it.

This new found relationship was a "road home" and the beginning to a life time friendship and understanding of the "right kind of Love".

I hope you enjoyed venturing into my past. It is my prayer that you see how GREAT a FATHER we have and that HIS plans are greater than anything we can even begin to imagine.

MARRIAGE UPDATE: 16yrs since that first night; three beautiful children; a healed heart and a marriage relationship built by and alive in CHRIST!