There and Back Again

                                  Well, here is the story for all of you nosy people out there—I suppose I am a blogger, so the point of having a blog is to make people nosy about what is going on in my life. Anyway, A couple of years ago, I attended Christ Fellowship Church in Royal Palm and on occasion I sang BGV’s for the middle-school and high-school services. Even during my first semester of College, I was still very attached to the high-school service on Wednesday nights, So I continued to attend. On one of the last nights I attended, I met the new intern, Daniel Sadowski. He was very friendly and loved to write. During service, I was sitting off to the side, working on a paper that I had to turn in the next day for my English Composition Class at PBAU. He and I sat around joking for a while and when I left, I said goodbye, thinking I would probably never see him again. But he knew that I was already dating someone so he backed off. We said Hello to each other every once in a while when we passed in the hallways at church, but we didn’t really keep in touch. Facebook and Myspace, assisted in our connection. We became friends online, but still really didn’t speak. About 1 ½ years later, he started chatting with my online and told me about the fact that he was going to Peru for a semester. I thought it was neat, but I didn’t really think too much about it. You know, whatever—just another guy from church that wants to serve in ministry, “yeah, right.” So, I still tried to ignore him, but once he arrived in Peru, we started talking on almost a daily basis and by September 13th we had expressed our feelings to each other. 
                          Before talking with Daniel, I didn’t really have a daily devotion set in place, and my heart was really struggling from some unfortunate events that took place in my previous relationship. While talking with Daniel, I noticed that all he wanted to talk about was God. This really annoyed me at first because, I knew that my heart was not right with God, and it really made me feel inadequate and uncomfortable. But I always came out encouraged at the end of the conversation. So, since he was always going to share, I started reading my Bible because I wanted to have something to share. Soon this became almost everything that we talked about and I couldn’t wait to finally meet him again. I had to wait until December 6th, 2008. The first time I saw him was actually on December 8th, we met at a park and he brought some Publix subs. We immediately clicked, it was a little awkward at first, but we both came around. 
We spent the winter break getting to know each other and reading our Bibles together. The next semester we would both be attending the Bible College in Peru, which I must say, felt the like 5 years of getting to know each other concentrated into 4 months. We lived about 30 feet away from each other. We were forced to see each other on our best days and worst days and to set an example to all the other students on campus for what a relationship should look like (since relationships were not encouraged on campus.) We did a great job and were commended by our pastor at the end of the semester. By the end of the semester we were really talking about marriage and starting a family. Well, we were serious. 
                               On June 25th, 2009, Daniel took me on a secret date. I thought we were going to the beach, but it turned out to be the Jupiter light house. We went on the tour and climbed up to the top. When we got there, it was only the two of us. *side note* Daniel wears a pair of dog tags on a necklace. One has information about his epilepsy in case of an emergency and the other one has the Bible reference for the armor of God. I am always fixing them. Well, once we got up to the top of the lighthouse, he walked over and asked me if I could fix his dog tags for him and I was about to tuck them down in his shirt when I saw the ring on the chain. I didn’t know what to say and he brought up the Bible verse about Jesus being the light of the World, told me that he loved me very much and that I was his best friend and sister. Then he got down on one knee and proposed. I told him that “I am more confident about this then anything else in the world. Yes, I’ll marry you.” We prayed and started our walk back down the stairs. Did I mention that he is terrified of heights?! He was backed up against the wall at the top and I’m like leaning over the edge looking at everything! Hehe. He is so brave : ) That night we went to eat at Bimini Twist, a fancy Sea food restaurant on Okeechobee. We dressed up. It was very nice : )
             We have not set a date yet. We are hoping sometime in November or December. Right now, we are both trying to save some money. He works part-time at Panera Bread. He hasn’t been getting many hours, but some is better than nothing! I currently am unemployed. I’m looking for a job, but nothing has come up yet. There you have it : )