Valentine's Day was wonderful. And so was her birthday. We are having such a wonderful time together and recently she bought me a cell phone.. :-) That was soo sweet of her. I never wanted one, nor did I really need one. But this makes our lives a lot easier. We can talk whenever we need to and that is great.

My parents have eased off, I think they may accept this soon. I will have to pray that they do. I have also thought about how much I have grown in the past two years, since I have known each other. First of all, I no longer have as much anxiety as I did before. That is in regard to difficulties. I take hurdles in stride. I am not as selfish as I was. I am reaching out to others and trying to help others....God has been blessing me.

I still have a lot of things I have to address personally. My health, my realationships with my parents and family, my career goals, and lots of things that I was supposed to have done...various chores. But if I just instill some discipline in my life, that will take care of everything. That and placing God first, and spending quality time with Him daily.

V Day

It has been a while...

Valentine's Day went well. It also happened to be our two year anniversary. I sent flowers to her work. Lots of them. Not really my style. I don't think people should know how I feel about her. As long as she knows, that is what is important to me. But it made her feel happy, and other people I asked said to do it. Then we met for dinner halfway. It was short and sweet. She bought me some music. I bought her some writing journals, pens, and a book about Vermeer's paintings.

We were both happy, and it was at the same restaurant where we shared our first meal together, alone. It was wonderful.

Her birthday was a short while later. I got her some more flowers, some jewelry and some soaps and things. My pastor had mentioned the word extravagance when talking about God's love for us. I saw that word in a translation of 1 Corinthians 13. In the past, I have been known to be frugal (not cheap!), but careful. And I have decided that life is short. We only have a limited amount of time to show our love and I thought I would go a bit overboard in showing my love for her. After all, she is the one I will marry, so why not be extravagant. Of course, it is relative to my circumstances, so for me, I went overboard!

She was happy, knowing she was and is loved.

We spent some time with her neighbors. One of whom is an assistant pastor at a new church. He has been guiding me and helping me--he is trying to figure out what we can do to convince my parents to bless our wedding. He brought up some interesting points. I decided to try and reason with my parents.

Meantwhile, things are going well with me spiritually. I am drawing closer to God and am relying on him. Evidence of that includes that my car is in the shop, and I am not worried at all about it!