Sunrise Sunset

Woah! What just happened? In the space of a year, my life has totally taken a turn that I had never expected to see. So here I am, a single woman on her way to 40 *GULP* when the next thing you know, I am engaged to be married!

I think the most fun of this whole thing is that I got to tell my family, who were a little beside themselves. One of my aunts said "But you are just so...single." She tried to back peddle a little by saying that I was so good at it. Well sure I was, I had perfected being single by this point! Single looked good on me. I wore it well! I had my network of single girlfriends, and although we would lament from time to time about the pitfalls of being single, overall, we had decided that we were much better off! We could choose where and when we would go somewhere and with whom. We were not tied down to anyone, thus giving us perfect freedom.

However...as time marched on, and my relationship with God grew, I noticed that I started to have a small yearning in my heart that would not go away. It took me a while to identify this strange sensation, and then I realized...I was starting to SETTLE DOWN!
I wanted to have a husband and be a wife. What was happening to me? At first I was in denial. I was in disbelief that this one time staunch feminist actually wanted to have a husband. Who was I becoming? Then I got it. God was doing a work in me. He was slowly preparing my heart for a man to move in there and take up residence. I had boarded that thing up years ago thinking that I would never again love someone deeply enough to marry. How wrong I was. :)

I fell in love with my one of my best friends. We had known each other for years, as he was married to one of my other best friends. I had become very close to their family, attending functions, hanging out and watching movies, the endless games of Scrabble. But all that changed last year. The wife died suddenly, leaving us behind. We were devastated. In the process of picking up the pieces, I fell in love with the man she left behind. It has been a strange trip, but in the end, it all makes sense. God put us together for a wonderful reason, and we are so blessed to have one another.

So, there you have it. We are engaged now and getting married this November. Hopefully I won't wait that long to post!