Story of our meeting:
Our Moms are best friends and have been for some
time. Her mom's is name Jan, and my mom's name is Beth. Beth
had 3 boys, and Jan had three girls. They had always hoped that two
of their offspring would get together. Well, you know the old
scripture about God giving the desires of the heart? Well, let me
start at the beginning.
Nancy and I were the youngest of our families,
not including the absolute blessings that are additions to her family of
Jessica Moriah and Daniel. When my mom seperated from my dad, my
mom, my two brothers and I, revisited our old friends in Michigan.
While up there, Nancy and I ran into a mutual aquaintance. We went
over to her house and had a blast. We went swimming and played
a little pool; I am sorry to say that I got my pool stick taken away for
losing so bad. Well, Nancy and I got to know each other and
we became semi aquainted with each other. Conversations were a little
ackward because we didn't know much about each other, but we were able
to have a little chat to pass time. To make a long story even longer,
I went back to Louisiana, and Nancy and I didn't really keep in touch.
I think we wrote each other one letter.
Then a few years later, Nancy graduated from
High School, and she sent my mom a graduation invitation. In the
envelope was two pictures of Nancy, both very nice looking, but she doesn't
think they do. In the invitation was an email address. I decided
to take it upon myself to send her an email saying, "Hi" and such.
She got the email. I think I even got one back. How's that
for stepping out on a limb? I guess it really does work. :o)
Well, I think we got to two letters back and
forth, but then her letters to me stopped. I just figured that she
was really busy because in all her letters it seemed as she had a lot going
on at the time. That was fine with me; I understand a busy schedule.
Every now and then I would run across her letters while going through my
email, and I would write her another letter. I wrote about 3 email
like this.
I had not heard from her in a couple of months.
I was beginning to worry if eveything was ok. Then one day, I got
this letter in the mail. It was a Veggie Tale envelope on Veggie
Tale stationary. How cool is that? Needless to say, I was very
impressed with the letter. On the very end of the letter was an Instant
Messager name. I used IM all the time at work. I was so excited;
I was actually excited to go to work. That didn't happen very often.
I was bouncing off the walls at work. It seemed like forever before
she logged onto IM. Finally she did. It was the longest conversation
that I have ever held on IM. I only wish I would have saved that
conversation. I have saved many of our conversations since then.
She didn't log on for another week. I was worried about her.
She finally logged on and we talked some more. We learned a
great deal about each other, and we found we have a lot in common.
Sometimes I think that we are only picking up the conversation where we
left off the last time we talked. We never really run out of things
to say.
So, I had talked to her on IM, I had written
her letters, but I had never talked to her on the phone. So the second
week we were talking on IM, I asked her if she would mind if I called her.
Well, she didn't mind, or that was what she told me. The truth of
the matter was she was praying that I wouldn't call. Well, I think
that was the first time I let her down by showing her that I am not the
typical male. When I say I am going to call, there is a really good
reason why I didn't. Not just because I didn't call.
I called her and we talked for eight, count them...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8
hours. I have never talked on the phone that long with someone.
It was a great conversation. We talked and talked. I even had
the cordless phone go dead on me. That had never happened to me before,
so I switched to the corded phone.
Nancy and I have been talking ever since.
I have never found such a girl. She is simply amazing, but you will
hear all about that later. Well, it seems that Aunt Jan, the afore
mentioned Jan but not our real aunt, was planning to come down to see my
family. Nancy had an extra ticket that she had not used. Well
next thing I know, Nancy was coming down to Louisiana with her mom.
Wow, God is so awesome. Nancy and Aunt Jan came down
in the later part of March. There had been some indications of a
future really close friendship in the future. We spend so much time
on IM it was not even funny. Even Aunt Jan thought we spent too much
time on it, and its free. ;o)
When Nancy and her mom came down, it seemed like
everything had been planned out from the begining. Hmmm oh wait...It
had. God planned it out. I love it how a plan comes together.
To make this a little shorter, I will sum up
the rest of the story. Nancy and I are still best friends and always
will be. She is my girlfriend whom I love very much. We have
spent much time on the phone, IM, and in prayer. When we talk on
the phone, we end our conversations on the phone with a prayer to the Center
of our relationship. God. He is the only key to a successful
relationship.
I left out most of the good stuff about nancy
and I, and if you want the info just email me @ [email protected]