May = Month of Love

My friends are so sweet and they want for me to be married so badly! I am so encouraged by them and the examples that their marriages set for me and what I am trusting God for but sometimes their zealousness can be a bit overwhelming.

I am pretty much never around single men my age so I don't really know how to act if I'm ever casually around a single man my age and I definitely don't know how to act when I'm around one that I'm being set up with!! Needless to say set ups for me leave plenty of room for awkwardness!

May 2007

So, why is May my month of love? Well it all started 3 years ago this upcoming May.
My former boss and his wife and I were all invited to the same wedding in May. I, of course, didn't have a date and they had the perfect person to set me up with. Unfortunately this particular guy couldn't make it to the wedding to be my date due to a prior commitment BUT he happened to be driving through Jacksonville and could meet for lunch! Well I still needed a date for the wedding so this sweet couple actually had another friend who was going to be in town the actual day of the wedding and thought that he would be a fun date.

So I meet with guy #1 for lunch along with this married couple. This guy was super, super attractive and super charismatic- and he had a southern accent!!!!!! I thought I was going to die. He did the same thing as I did and had a very similar testimony as me so it was wonderful to connect with him in those things. I was just impressed that I actually formed a semi-coherent sentence. Anyway guy #1 had to be on his way but he said he loved meeting me and looked forward to talking soon.

Now onto guy #2. I meet him right before the wedding and the 4 of us journey to the wedding together. Guy #2 is super nice and funny but not super attractive (i know that sounds so shallow). I laughed a lot but we really didn't have a lot to connect over, which was fine with me. Towards the end of the reception I got the feeling that he might think that we had more of a connection than I thought we did and I panicked because, well, I just don't know how to handle these type of things!! The four of us leave the reception and head back to the couples home. They all get out of the car and I thank them all for a wonderful time and head to my car, just as I think I've made my escape, I hear a tap on my car window. I roll down my window and guy #2 asks if he could get my number so he could call me. I respond with an enthusiastic "Of course you can!" I then give him my number and he calls me the next day.

So want to know what happened with guy #1- I heard nothing from him for about a month then all of a sudden he started texting me (not sure how he got my number) and being flirty and then I never heard from him again. The last thing I heard about him was that he was getting married very soon- glad to see that he can commit, I was a little worried about him.
Guy #2- called me a few times, I of course didn't answer because I am such a mature woman... Yeah... Anyway, he has been married for a few months now.

Glad everything turned out well for these 2 guys!! So that was May 2007 (I believe)

May 2008

Ok, so next May (2008). As May was approaching I was thinking back to the previous May and was chuckling to myself about the insanity of it all. I was at lunch with a friend and I get a call from one of my co-workers asking what I was doing because he had somebody that he wanted me to meet. I asked him if he meant right this second and he said yes, of course, he was having lunch with him. Well, I was in no way dressed or prepared to meet an attractive single guy! I raced home and tried to do something with my mess of hair and reapply some sort of make up. I head over to their lunch place and proceed to meet my set up. He was very charming and fun to talk with. I spent the rest of their lunch with them. That particular summer I was traveling all over the place so we went on dates and met up when we could. I will probably be writing more about him in the future so I'll just say that it officially ended in October and I couldn't be happier. Unlike the previous "May men" he is not married and if he ever does get married I would love to meet that woman!

May 2009

Now onto May 2009. This was my favorite "May man" by far. I was joking with my friend Heather right about this time last year that I think my month of love was coming to an end because I literally could not guess where I would meet a guy this upcoming May. I'm sure God got a good laugh out of that conversation. Hmmm what to say about our meeting... I'm not sure because it still seems surreal and I feel annoyed and blessed all at the same time. I will say that I will definitely be writing in more detail about this latest "May man" but for this post I'll be brief. I met this guy at a meeting of about 40 or so people who are involved in full-time ministry. I had seen this guy a few months before and thought he was cute but never thought I'd ever see him again. I definitely thought he was attractive and he was definitely my type and I DEFINITELY was not going to talk to him at all!! Anyway he actually came up and introduced himself to me and I thought that he might have been a bit interested in me so I freaked out and ran away (once again, being the mature woman that I am). The meeting ended and he left and I thought that I would never get to talk to this man again. Lo and behold I got a new friend request on facebook from this man. We became friends on facebook and started to write to each to each other and realized we had a lot in common and shared a lot of the same theological beliefs and so many other wonderful things. We talked through out the summer and spent time together (we didn't live in the same state). I learned many, many, many things about the Lord, men, relationships, and myself because of this "May man." In August we were done. He is not married and I'm definitely interested to see who the Lord would have him marry- she would have to be quite the catch! I am looking forward to sharing more in future posts about all that I learned in this past year because of last May.

So, now that brings us to this May. Who knows??? Only the Lord does and His word tells us that He can do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine- only according to His power- not mine!!

I want to make sure that you know that my tone in these postings about these guys is humor. I love to laugh and I love having my life make others laugh. Yes, rejection and broken dreams are hard but I am so thankful that the Lord has given me a sense of humor to be able to laugh at these things that the Lord has given me!