Love of Mine

First off, I would like to thank God, our Heavenly Father, for giving us the ability to love. This is first and foremost my intention of writing this.

Quite simply put, I am in love.

The great part about my being in love is that it is with the most amazingly gorgeous, sweet, caring, kind, and loving woman on Earth! Liz is my home away from home. My fantasy. My dream. My cheesy romance novel sealed with a genuine kiss. And I hers. I would lay down all of my hopes and dreams just to let her know how much I love her. There is a really awesome part to all of this:

I get to wake up next to her in 178 days.

I get to serve her, comfort her in times of great need. All because God allowed me to do so. He put such an amazing woman in my life. She has truly helped me become a more stable human being, grounded in love and hope.

There is so much to marriage, as I have been researching and learning from other couples around me. It's so much more than the physical. It's the emotional bond we will share together. It's the moments when I dread going clothes shopping, yet I do it for her. It's embracing the extra special, intimate moments, and learning from the hard moments.

Let me tell you why I am so apt in wanting to serve Liz wholeheartedly:

There is something about the way she smiles that makes me think of summertime and shooting stars.
Something about the way she tells me she loves me that makes me feel the pangs of first-love butterflies.
There's something about the way she wraps her arms around me that makes me want to ask her to dance with me.
Something about the way her eyes align with mine that makes my boyish mind want to know more.
There's just something about Liz that makes me feel young again, and alive in the concept of Love.

Because I know Liz will inevitably read this, I want to say this to you, my love:
I promise I will use every breath that you don't take away to tell you how much I love you.

On How the Current of Life Changes

If life is an ocean of happenstance, the current has definitely changed in my ocean. God has begun to uproot me, to teach me new things. Enough analogy though, simplicity is a virtue:

I have worked myself to my core to get through school, and I am finally here. All of the knowledge and hard work has finally come to a culmination. I choose to thank God. He has given me the patience and diligence to get through this, and I owe it all to Him. But life as we know it sometimes throws us a curveball. My studies have demanded so much time from me that I have to be away from church a lot of times. Relationships I have with my brothers and sisters in Christ are being put to the test. But I must say something in regard to this: If it's God's will, so be it. I was called to the field of education, and I must be diligent in said calling. It pains me to know that I could be spending time with the people I love instead, but I know deep down I was meant to do this. To be a revealer of knowledge somehow. To teach and to learn. To support the love of my life. All in the name of the One who created us.

It's humbling to know that I will struggle in life. That I will always attempt to understand, but never be understood, unless of course it's in the classroom. I feel as though when I step through the doors in an educational setting, I receive this profound burst of knowledge that I may only attribute to God's will. He has a plan for every single one of us, because He loves every single one of us just the same. There is something more.

I want to know that something.

To wrap this all up nice and neat in a pretty little package for everyone, I will quote a man who said it better than I ever will:

"There is no teaching without learning."-Paolo Freire