Our Love Story: Part One
I love a good love story. And when I say a good love story I don't mean the Disney fairy tale Nicholas Sparks drama kind of love story, but a real down to earth kind of love story. Where nothing is hidden, where two souls, two imperfect souls, connect and find each other. Where a big God brought two sinners together, and thru His grace kept their marriage intact, even before they were new beings in Christ. Where a love story God wrote many years ago began for me when I was twelve years old.
I met my husband for the first time in seventh grade. Let me be perfectly honest here, I was not impressed. Then again, Justin was a twelve year old boy who still considered girls to be on the bottom of his "things to think about after football" list. The first time meeting him in our little class of twenty something other kids, he was jumping around desks like his pants were on fire. The child could not sit still! And as far as my interests in boys, I was still recovering from learning of the guys from NSYNC breaking up. I was pretty convinced I was gonna grow up and marry Justin Timberlake. I did end up marrying a Justin though ;)
Justin continued being goofy our first year of meeting, and we didn't talk much. He had his paintballing, video game and football playing buddies, and I had my group of girlfriends who loved watching mushy love stories and daydreaming about our future husbands (and planning our weddings.) Typical preteen girl stuff. We literally watched each other enter those awkward teenage years, where crushes on celebrities turn into crushes on classmates.
My husband would tell me the first time he attempted to relay his feelings for me was in the eighth grade, when he made a remark about my height. (I'm a shrimpcakes I will admit that.) But I did not take the "compliment" well. I wittingly responded back with a comment of my own pointing out his "chicken legs" and feeling pretty confident in my verbal bantering. He laughed and poked at my height some more, he still tries to convince me it was because he was crushing on me...but that's still up for debate. So his big move to revealing his feelings for me didn't go over so well. Don't worry, his skills got a little better the following year.....
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