Would I be able to convince you to marry someone you had met only once? Nope, not a chance. What if I got down on my knees and spoke most convincingly and in pleading tones, would you then? Okay, okay, I know you would find excuses to make a quick get-away from this crazy woman, but do you know what God didn't need to use eloquent powers of persuasion to convince me that Stephen was the one I would marry.
I like to pretend that I have a lady-like reserve but that veneer has a tendency to slip and the real me pokes her head up once in a while. Well, that happened at my cousin's wedding. I saw a friend of mine introducing someone I didn't know to some youth from her home congregation including You-Know-Who.
Whoo-whooo, here was some introductions I wanted to get in on.
I didn't need this friend to tell me later that I had stars in my eyes and didn't notice anyone else after I met HIM. On a subconscious level, I knew it, and I'm sure he did too. When the youth got together at a campsite after the wedding we 'happened' to end up in the same car. I don't know what happened to shy little me but the young lady in the same ride with HIM was sure bubbling over with joy and I don't recall HER having any trouble finding things to talk about.
The next day he came to my uncle and aunt's place just before going back home and we exchanged addresses etc. Quite unbeknownst to me, we were just below a certain bedroom window and my cousins were quite aware of what was going on. Would I have cared if I had known? Not so much!
Did we exchange letters for years and years while we slowly, cautiously got to know each other? Not on your life. I sent one letter and got one back and then waited...
One day I came home from my shift at the nursing home (it was what we called a broken shift) and Mom said she was invited to the minister's wife for tea. Ah ha, now it's coming...
She asked me to can some tomatoes while she was gone and I actually managed to do it even though my head must have been up in the clouds somewhere.
When she came home with the proposal, I wanted to say "Yes, yes, yes!" right away but common sense told me I should sleep over it for one night at least.
After all, this was a big decision. I went back to finish my shift and sailed through the day.
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