Not Every Soil Can Bear All Things
I can not even remotely begin to explain to you all that has gone on since my last post. Christmas wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. I never did get the chance to get into the Christmas sprit. Life has remained fairly stressful. When I was reaching the end of my rope, my man planned a night out for the two of us. I spent all week looking forward to a chance for the two of us to spend a little bit of time together having fun. We had all of these great activities planned, but when it came down to it, we were both really tired and decided to go from dinner straight to our starbucks.
Now, you need to understand the history behind this starbucks...when my man first flew out from Virginia for 10 days, we went there on his last night here. It is really romantic, it is in a really upscale shopping center, which has nice outdoor seating, and all of the trees have white Christmas lights on them year round. While we were sitting on the back patio that night almost two years ago, he got down on one knee promising me that he would be back down there someday asking me for my hand in marriage.
So as we were walking around enjoying how beautiful the evening is, I was thinking, 'this is a really romantic place, it would be nice if he proposed to me here some day.' About fifteen minutes later, he pulled a ring out of his pocket and proposed!!!!
My elation didn't last for long though, my family was furious, and promptly started making my life miserable. They called up my friends who haven't talked with me for six months to ask them what they thought of my man. They both said that they felt he would become abusive.
What makes me so mad about the situation is that both of their opinions are based on one event that only one of them witnessed. They also haven't talked with me since July, so I have a hard time believing that they really know what is going on.
Anyways, so since my family managed to guilt trip me about the whole engagement, we decided to postpone it until I could work through some of my issues with my family. My man went as far as to give my father the ring as a sign of respect. But my family still hasn’t given him a chance.
This last week in Bible study, one of the things the pastor said really stuck in my mind, “Whatever you believe about someone, you will make come true.” I believe that my parents made a rash first impression of my man, and since have only seen his actions from that perspective.
I know that this is going to be rough, but I would rather fight for my relationship, then to have it easy without him in my life!!
Now, you need to understand the history behind this starbucks...when my man first flew out from Virginia for 10 days, we went there on his last night here. It is really romantic, it is in a really upscale shopping center, which has nice outdoor seating, and all of the trees have white Christmas lights on them year round. While we were sitting on the back patio that night almost two years ago, he got down on one knee promising me that he would be back down there someday asking me for my hand in marriage.
So as we were walking around enjoying how beautiful the evening is, I was thinking, 'this is a really romantic place, it would be nice if he proposed to me here some day.' About fifteen minutes later, he pulled a ring out of his pocket and proposed!!!!
My elation didn't last for long though, my family was furious, and promptly started making my life miserable. They called up my friends who haven't talked with me for six months to ask them what they thought of my man. They both said that they felt he would become abusive.
What makes me so mad about the situation is that both of their opinions are based on one event that only one of them witnessed. They also haven't talked with me since July, so I have a hard time believing that they really know what is going on.
Anyways, so since my family managed to guilt trip me about the whole engagement, we decided to postpone it until I could work through some of my issues with my family. My man went as far as to give my father the ring as a sign of respect. But my family still hasn’t given him a chance.
This last week in Bible study, one of the things the pastor said really stuck in my mind, “Whatever you believe about someone, you will make come true.” I believe that my parents made a rash first impression of my man, and since have only seen his actions from that perspective.
I know that this is going to be rough, but I would rather fight for my relationship, then to have it easy without him in my life!!
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