Announcement..

[VictoriasImage77]

Sometime during the last few days of March, 2007, after years of frustration following a relationship path that I knew God did not want me on, I prayed the following prayer, "Lord, I'm done running from you. I'm done being foolish. Obviously I don't know what I need, and what I want must not be what I need. Show me what I need, what You want for me..not what I want. Show me my husband." I knew the husband part was kind of a stretch, but I felt so peaceful inside knowing that I was done running from and ignoring God. I was content with whatever God had in store.

On April 6th, 2007, Iabout a week later, I sent Reborn_in_Christ a PM message here on CF after reading a post of his and liking what he had to say. I had nothing in mind, and neither did he. But God certainly did. (Check out the post below).

I am happy to announce that on September 27th, a little over a week ago and about 7.5 years later, Reborn_in_Christ and I were united in marriage before God and family/friends. It hasn't been an easy road, but it has been worth it. He might not be what I thought I wanted years ago, but he's exactly what I needed.

I am so blessed. Praise be to God.


Private Message
Recipients: Reborn_in_Christ

6th April 2007, 01:25 AM

VictoriasImage77

Join Date: 20th February 2007
Location: MI
Posts: 227


Hello Fellow Michigander!
Hey you are from MI too I see

 

[ValleyGal]

Congratulations on your nuptials! My husband is from Michigan, too.

 

[LinkH]

Congratulations! I'd love to know the story of how that message turned into getting married.

 

[mkgal1]

Congratulations to the two of you!

 

[VictoriasImage77]

Congratulations! I'd love to know the story of how that message turned into getting married.

After the initial message we talked quite a bit here and through AIM. Turned out we had a lot in common and although he lived about 7.5 hours from where I was, he had taken a summer job closer by. We spent that first summer getting to know one another, and spent one fall semester apart. He changed college majors and transferred to a school in the town where I lived that December (how convenient lol). That was also the same month we got engaged. But we were young, and we moved fast and were still in college, so at our parents' request we waited until we had both finished college-which ended up getting pushed back quite a ways due to finances. What a long road.

I knew he was the one after our second phone conversation, and of course everyone just rolled their eyes about that haha.

We actually planned a wedding twice and had to postpone due to unforeseen expenses and events. How embarrassing. Because we didn't originally have a romantic engagement story, as a college graduation gift he got me a microscope (I was a biology major) and set it up to surprise me. He had me look through the eyepiece and engraved on one of the slides were the words "Marry me?"

So here we are 7.5 years later, finally married. In that amount of time we've been through so many of life's ups and downs, and our lives and dreams eventually wove into an inseparable thread. We have forgiven each other a lot, and I can really say that we know who each other is pretty thoroughly, good and bad. We live by the philosophy that love is a choice, not an emotion. Emotions are fleeting and unreliable, but each day we choose to love one another, because life gets in the way and even liking each other some days can be tough. We make a great team, and he's my best friend. I'm pretty hopeful that if we keep the one thing that brought us together..prayer..as our central focus, we will be in this for the long haul.

 

[LinkH]

We actually planned a wedding twice and had to postpone due to unforeseen expenses and events. How embarrassing. Because we didn't originally have a romantic engagement story, as a college graduation gift he got me a microscope (I was a biology major) and set it up to surprise me. He had me look through the eyepiece and engraved on one of the slides were the words "Marry me?"

I think that is a very creative way to propose. Okay, maybe just a little nerdy, but still pretty cool. If he pulled the execution of it off well, that sounds like it could have been romantic, too.

Did he make the proposal look like some kind of amoeba so you weren't sure about it?

 

[Inkachu]

I love the microscope proposal, too!!

Congrats on your new marriage!! NOW the real work begins

I hope you'll stick around and join in our convos. I don't think I've ever seen you before?

 

[VictoriasImage77]

I've been around sporadically since early 2007, just not in this section