what a difference...

(...a year makes)

just a quick note today to tell you how lucky i am. 

one year ago, to the day, this guy friended me on 'the city' (our church version of facebook) and then on actual facebook. and we started a dialogue that has now progressed, exactly twelve months later, into the planning of our wedding and honeymoon. 

one year ago, spring was poking it's tiny little head out of the ground, trying to gather momentum enough to stick around for a few days. eventually, spring sprung, and it was nice and pretty, flowery and light outside. spring blossomed into summer, summer faded into fall and fall blew into winter. and now, one year later, spring's head is poking around the corner again, wanting to make an appearance.

one year ago, spring seemed so close, yet so far. after a bitterly cold winter, i remember i was almost dying for some sun and warmth, and it felt like it would never come. single sunny days would come and go, like a tease, just to be blasted with cold, snowy weather again.

one year ago, love seemed very far away. after wrestling with God's plan for my life, i remember coming to enjoy and truly love my single life. it felt like a forever love would never come, and promising dates would come and go, just a tease, then left alone again to relearn the joys singleness once more.

today the lengthening daylight, the budding flowers, the warm sun all remind me of the twitterpated feeling of a new, budding relationship and all the unsaid possibilities. and i am here, one year later, to remember those feelings... last spring, i was hoping he would like me. this spring, i have more love in my heart for him than i've ever thought possible to have for another human being. 

that's all i have today. 

ps watch out, we didn't start dating until april, so watch out for another corny, love-struck post in about a month :)