To Do

1. Plant a garden
2. Live downtown in a big city
3. Learn what beauty is
4. Be a wife
5. Run a marathon

 Some day I will re-post this list with one change.
The title will be
To Do Done

#2

                Here’s recap of my Valentine’s date with the wonderful Matthew Bay.

               

    He met me downstairs in the lobby of my dorm with two roses. Two because this is our second Valentine’s. One red for tradition and one white because I am “a white girl.”

 

    His gift was a picture frame with lyrics from one of our favorite songs that depict our future, Josh Wilson’s “Always Only You.”

 

  

    Matt had the evening completely planned out, and I knew absolutely nothing.

We had dinner at P.F. Chang’s. It was my first time there, and I was super excited because I’ve only recently discovered my love for Asian cuisine. We each got a cup of soup, we shared a plate of [delicious] calamari, we each got an entrée (sesame chicken for him, sweet and sour for me), and a mini dessert (chocolate raspberry concoction for him, triple chocolate mousse for me)., all of which we ate over candle light.

 

Having time to spare before our next event, we talked in the car for a while then wandered around Arlington Highlands. To our delight, we found the Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory. We got two truffles, Amaretto and Iced Cappuccino, and shared them.

Next we headed to Studio Movie Grill to watch The Vow! I was ridiculously impressed that he had chosen this movie. I hadn’t dropped many hints, but thankfully I have a guy who likes chick-flicks and isn’t afraid to say so. It was probably one of the most realistic sappy movies I have seen (probably because it’s a true story), and I loved it!

It’s 24 hours later, and I am still floating from all of the happiness last night brought. I learned a lot about how much I can miss when I worry about making things go smoothly and according to plan. But last night, I had no plan but to let him take me where ever he wanted. My only goal was to enjoy every minute of it, and I did!

I am so looking forward to spending many many many more Valentine’s days and every other kind of day with this man.

                                                I am blessed.

All in All

"I hear the Savior say, 'Thy strength indeed is small. Child of weakness, watch and pray. Find in Me thine All in All.'"
"When this poor lisping, stammering tongue lies silent in the grave, then, in a nobler, sweeter song, I will sing Thy power to save."

Just a couple of lines that have been in my heart this past week. May I learn to look to my Savior for all things and sing of His power for eternity.

7 Days

 "Falling in loving is something. Falling in love is nothing."

Ben Rector makes my heart so happy.
Seriously, he knows how to make some good music.
He makes me think about love and how simple it is to just be with the one I love, how to just be.

Speaking of love, February 14th is only 7 days away. Matt says he knows what we're doing to celebrate Valentine's Day #2. I, however, do not know, and that's that way I like it.

Thank you, Pinterest, for transforming me into a crafty women. One step closer to Proverbs 31. Crafts are in there, right? Either way, I'll post a picture of Matt's Valentine gift if it turns out as wonderful as it is in my head.

"With your eyes so blue,
That the sky in June
May as well be shades of gray,
Well all I know to say is:
Baby, I am never gonna let you go.
Baby, I am telling everyone I know.
Though the storm may come or the wind may blow,
Baby, I am never gonna let you go"

Complete

 "See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, according to the tradition of men, according to the elementary principles of the world, rather than according to Christ. For in Him all the fullness of Deity dwells in bodily form, and in Him you have been made complete, and He is the head over all rule and authority..."                Colossians 2:8-10

As I suspected, my political science class is giving me much to meditate on, and it isn't federalism.

The professor has made a point on several occasions that really hits me every single time.

He says that even if his wife and four children died, and he was left without them, he would be okay because his completeness is found in Christ. That's a tough statement, but it should absolutely be true.

In relation to my own little world, there's a pretty important man in my life. I am beginning to see that though I love him with so much of my heart and look forward to spending the rest of my days with him, this man does not complete me. I am already complete in Christ. Something a little harder to swallow: I do not complete him. I am not the key to his joy or even his happiness. He is already complete.

The more I contemplate this, the better it sounds. I don't have to bear the pressure of being "the better half" and I don't have to measure him up against a standard that he can never meet. As we each seek to find our completeness in Christ, we can be better love and serve one another and others as two people complete in Christ.