15 years ago (the year 2000) my Sister called me and told me she wanted to play a game with me "ok?" I said "What game?"
"We are going to pick a wedding date for you and we're going to see how close you come to it."
I thought this was stupid and put up much protests, yet in the end I relented and picked the date April 24th 2002. She wrote it down and I forgot about it; she however, called every 6 months to remind me of my upcoming "nuptials"
In February 2002 she called again and laughingly said that I only had two months left and I better get ready for my wedding. I had no money, no prospects and was tired of the dating scene and was taking a break, so I laughed too.
Mid March I received a call from another Sister who had a coworker who needed a date for the next evening. I agreed to go and even talked to her to set it up. She seemed really nice, but I've experienced let downs before so my hopes weren't too high.
Boy was I wrong.
She was the funnest date I had ever been on, and oddest. Odd only in that she actually had an opinion about what she wanted to do and wasn't shy about changing our plans mid flight. I was spellbound and actually begged to see her again. I said "I had so much fun with you tonight and I really need to see you again. Will you please go out with me again, like...pretty please because I just really really really want to see you again....If you want...please want too...please" my patheticness was rewarded and we started dating. (I believe it was my muscles that won her over, at one point I had her feel them, and segwayed that to hand holding)
It was so refreshing to me to have met someone who didn't play games, I knew what she wanted from me because she told me. It was a whirlwind romance that swept us up into its current and carried me beyond feeling's I had only dreamed about. After one week I was done looking for another girl, My Jackie was the only one for me forever. I knew it was early in the relationship and unrealistic to think she would feel the same, but I was willing to wait for as long as it took. I didn't have to wait long; three days later she broached the idea of marriage and shared with me her surprise that I was everything she never knew she wanted. By the end of that conversation we were engaged.
We didn't want to wait, we agreed a long engagement was pointless. What could we accomplish waiting to be married that we couldn't accomplish actually being married? We settled on a three weeks long engagement so we could plan something and belonging to the church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints we wanted to be married in the temple, and because we gave ourselves no time for any real planning only one day was available April 24th 2002
13 years later I could not feel more blessed and convinced that God had his hand in our meeting and I scream out with my whole heart my love for Jackie Hickman Miller.
Jackie, Before we got married I prayed mightily if we were doing the right thing, If you truly were the one I should marry. I didn't receive and answer in the way I thought I would. My Brother in law was the source of inspiration he observed how calm I was. he said "Aarononicous! I can't believe how calm you are. I would be freaking out or bouncing off the walls in excitement. but you are so cool and calm about it that have no choice to have full respect"
Jackie, he was right. From the moment we met, you have calmed my soul. Whenever you were not there or our lives became hard and our marriage was uncertain, I would fall back into the panic and lonely despair I felt before I knew you. Even when life is at its hardest, you give me calm and peace and I know we can figure it out. You complete me and I love you more now than I did when we were first married. You were my whole world than, now you are my eternity.
"We are going to pick a wedding date for you and we're going to see how close you come to it."
I thought this was stupid and put up much protests, yet in the end I relented and picked the date April 24th 2002. She wrote it down and I forgot about it; she however, called every 6 months to remind me of my upcoming "nuptials"
In February 2002 she called again and laughingly said that I only had two months left and I better get ready for my wedding. I had no money, no prospects and was tired of the dating scene and was taking a break, so I laughed too.
Mid March I received a call from another Sister who had a coworker who needed a date for the next evening. I agreed to go and even talked to her to set it up. She seemed really nice, but I've experienced let downs before so my hopes weren't too high.
Boy was I wrong.
She was the funnest date I had ever been on, and oddest. Odd only in that she actually had an opinion about what she wanted to do and wasn't shy about changing our plans mid flight. I was spellbound and actually begged to see her again. I said "I had so much fun with you tonight and I really need to see you again. Will you please go out with me again, like...pretty please because I just really really really want to see you again....If you want...please want too...please" my patheticness was rewarded and we started dating. (I believe it was my muscles that won her over, at one point I had her feel them, and segwayed that to hand holding)
It was so refreshing to me to have met someone who didn't play games, I knew what she wanted from me because she told me. It was a whirlwind romance that swept us up into its current and carried me beyond feeling's I had only dreamed about. After one week I was done looking for another girl, My Jackie was the only one for me forever. I knew it was early in the relationship and unrealistic to think she would feel the same, but I was willing to wait for as long as it took. I didn't have to wait long; three days later she broached the idea of marriage and shared with me her surprise that I was everything she never knew she wanted. By the end of that conversation we were engaged.
We didn't want to wait, we agreed a long engagement was pointless. What could we accomplish waiting to be married that we couldn't accomplish actually being married? We settled on a three weeks long engagement so we could plan something and belonging to the church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints we wanted to be married in the temple, and because we gave ourselves no time for any real planning only one day was available April 24th 2002
13 years later I could not feel more blessed and convinced that God had his hand in our meeting and I scream out with my whole heart my love for Jackie Hickman Miller.
Jackie, Before we got married I prayed mightily if we were doing the right thing, If you truly were the one I should marry. I didn't receive and answer in the way I thought I would. My Brother in law was the source of inspiration he observed how calm I was. he said "Aarononicous! I can't believe how calm you are. I would be freaking out or bouncing off the walls in excitement. but you are so cool and calm about it that have no choice to have full respect"
Jackie, he was right. From the moment we met, you have calmed my soul. Whenever you were not there or our lives became hard and our marriage was uncertain, I would fall back into the panic and lonely despair I felt before I knew you. Even when life is at its hardest, you give me calm and peace and I know we can figure it out. You complete me and I love you more now than I did when we were first married. You were my whole world than, now you are my eternity.
The first time we walked out of the temple as man and wife April 24th 2002 |
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