Me and Cory got engaged seriously 2 months after dating! Oh man... Did my friends and family think I was crazy.
We knew each other for about a year before we actually ever went on a date! So I'm breaking the news and bringing this skeleton out of the closet. We met online. Whew! That feels good...
Coryplantx and ranahope started with a "wink" from me on yahoo personals. Man did he look cute in that hard hat! Haha! I was so afraid people would think I was a lunatic if they found out.
Nowadays... I don't really care if people know because I am probably very far from normal and that is A Ok with me.
I had dated a few guys here and there while at Tech, but nothing very promising. I was convinced that I would never find anyone because I wasn't pretty enough or skinny enough. Omg, did I have alot of pity parties!
I started reading a book called "When God writes your love story" by Eric and Leslie Ludy.
It taught me to literally give him the pen to write my love story! Knowing that God had created me in the womb, knew the desires of my heart, and also had created someone just for me was like an epiphany!
So what did I do? I asked God for my husband. I started praying for my future husband everyday and even started a journal where I wrote to him.
I knew I had to put in some effort and seek him in my little world. My mom met my amazing stepdad via internet and so that option had always been in the back of mind. I was going to sign up for one month only and I prayed that if God had someone out there for me that he would reveal him to me and connect us in some way!
Oh did he ever! My husband was the first profile l saw! I asked myself, "am I gunna knock on this door?" "Well heck yeah, I'd like to talk to this handsome fella, he'd make me some pretty chillins." And just for the record my little E is as pretty as they come! Haha!
And so God opened that door for me! We talked on the phone and texted, but were in different places in our life at the time so just agreed to be friends for the time being. About a year later he texted me to tell me happy birthday! We went on a date the next weekend and the rest is history!
Ok you worry warts... I was safe about it. "The kitty litter is in the pantry" was my code sentence for when my friend called me about 20 minutes into the date just in case I got scared or needed to be rescued!
I didn't have to use it. But I was rescued and it was by the grace of God with the help of my husband, Cory.
He healed my heart when it came to men. After being raised with a somewhat absent father and having dating relationships that seemed to always end in heartbreak and fighting.
He even loved me enough that he married me twice! First at a small service with family on July 23, 2009 (I was in Grad school with little time and $$, but could NOT put off of marrying him any longer) and later in July 2010 where we had a large wedding!
This scripture was one of the first things I read when I opened that book.
Matthew 7:7 "Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened."
I am proof...
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