I was in San Antonio this weekend...that's right...when the Aggies have a home football game, I get out of the Big CS as fast as possible. Actually that's not my reason for leaving the Big CS this weekend, but the traffic that comes through College Station when the Ags play at home is insane. I know traffic gets crazy for any football game, but the Big CS is actually not that big. With 45,000+ students, residents, and football fans in for the game, the place gets a little crowded. This is a really long explanation just to say I was happy to leave for the weekend...and I am obviously a two-percenter (top two percent, I like to think, haha).
I went to see Matthew this weekend in San Antonio and watch his soccer game at Southwestern. They won 3-0 so kudos to Matthew and the whole soccer team. After the game we followed Chris to his house in Austin before heading out to grab some food. Chris, by the way, is now part of the Ransom Notes at UT, so I'm sending some mad props out to him. For supper we had Mangolian BBQ - a first for me and it was excellent. Everyone should try it.
Ok, ok...what's my purpose for writing tonight? Procrastination is always a possiblity. But tonight there's another reason...ok, actually I just felt like writing and do have many things I could be doing. However, if I were doing those many other things right now, I wouldn't be able to concentrate because I would be thinking about writing so I now find myself here writing, with one song playing on repeat in the background.
So...right, my new season, my current season, is definately the best I've experienced. My prayers of being single this past summer didn't work (thank God for that) and I now find myself in a relationship with the most Godly and amazing person I've ever known. To say that I am happy would be an understatement. I am constantly amazed at the way God works in my life. Through everything that has happened these past couple of weeks, I still feel there is nothing wrong with the world...ok, maybe I shouldn't go that far. There are things wrong with the world, but that's another entry for another night. We'll just settle with saying there is nothing wrong in my world. I do have an amazing life filled with wonderful people and every day I shout thanks to God.
Pray to be single? Why would anyone do that? About this time last year, I was the happiest I had been in my life up until that point. Confidence has been restored. I was closer to the Lord than I had ever been. Life was as close to perfect as it can get. All summer I tried so hard to get back to that point. I had somehow over the spring semester drifted a little and desperately wanted to be back the where I was in the fall, thus the prayer to be single...to focus all my attention on God.
Thankfully Matthew wasn't praying to be single. Instead his prayed to God saying he was ready should God want to put someone in his life...Enter Haley centerstage. (This, by the way, is my favorite part of our story.) He'll tell you that his prayers just work better than mine.
Now I am praising God that He knows everything and when I think I need to be single, He puts Matthew into my life. When I think the only way to get back the relationship I had with the Lord is to be single, He says, "Haley, the relationship that I have created for you with Matthew is going to glorify me more than you being single ever will." Praise God for that. I am now closer to the Lord than I was at the beginning of the summer. I am closer today than I was yesterday. I am so thankful for Matthew and our relationship and how God is using it to glorify Him.
How great is our God!
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