June 16, 2010
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Mid-June
I guess I should blog. It's been over two weeks. I've been a little preoccupied, but there's time today.
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After my trip to Georgia, I really needed to make a decision as far as whether to pursue a dating relationship with Kaylin. The intensity of my conversation with her parents, and the momentum of our friendship really made that a must. So, I enlisted some people to pray for me about it. I wanted to pursue a relationship, but I wanted to make sure that was God's Will, not a rebound or anything. I told those people the situation, gave them some specific prayer points, and gave them 2 or three weeks to pray over it. Of course, it's hard to put a friendship of 5 years into a 2 page email, but I did my best. Most of the people I asked to pray got back to me within a week or so. They gave me the green light but cautioned me to take it slow and be careful. I didn't hear back from immediately. She was busy with camp stuff, and her birthday was somewhere in there, but I knew she had got my email and was dialoguing with Kaylin.
Kaylin was scheduled to have surgery on her foot June 9th, and the only other dates where either of us could take time off would be at the end of July. The end of July being a good 2 months off, we decided to see if she could get a student stand-by ticket and fly here the weekend before her surgery. She was finishing up her Maymester classes, and she was able to take one of her finals early and get out of her Friday shift at work, and that cleared her to come visit. Kaylin flew into Texas on Friday, June 4th.
I honestly didn't know what to expect out of the weekend. We didn't plan the trip, so that I could ask her out in person. That wasn't my intention. I hadn't heard back from Brandi quite yet, but I knew that if I was going to ask her out, this would be a great time to do it...
The whole weekend was a blur to me. I know we played frisbee golf and tossed the football around. She played on our church softball team on Monday night. She met my parents and my brother. She met James, the youth group, and the young adult group. She got to see my office, the youth room, and the rest of the church. I cooked for her; I took her out to eat. We went walking and swimming late at night. She watched me play a pickup game of basketball. I asked her out, and she said yes...
Her plan was to return to Georgia on a standby flight, and the one she wanted left at 9:00 am on Tuesday, so in order to get there 2 hours early, we had to leave Waco at 4:45 in the morning. That was less than fun, but oh well. When we got there, the lines were super long, and after waiting a little bit, they moved us to a different line for passengers who weren't checking any bags. I intended to stay there until she got her ticket, but after an hour, the line hadn't moved except for the people who had left the line. I was parked in one hour parking, so I needed to move the car. She told me I could go ahead and leave, so I did.
I had planned on stopping in West on the way back to get something to eat, but I got a call from her about 2 minutes outside of West. Apparently the computers for AirTran had been down for 12 hours, and everyone missing flights were getting bumped. Because she was waiting for a standby spot, they told her the earliest she could get on was Wednesday afternoon or Thursday morning. So, after making a few calls, she got her surgery rescheduled for the following Wednesday, the 16th. She had already taken off work, and she didn't have any responsibilities at home, so we decided she could just come back to Waco and fly out the following Monday. So, after I'd driven almost all the way home, I turned around and made the trip back up to DFW. Needless to say, that was a long day.
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My next decision is whether I move to Georgia or not. To be honest, I feel like it's what I need to do. Seminary is really the only thing that complicates that, so I'm going to call my adviser this week. I want to finish seminary, and taking a year or two off isn't going to change that. Ultimately, I think moving to Georgia would help me become a better minister for a variety of reasons. Coming back to Waco after having a couple of years to renew myself seems like a good thing. Kaylin and I talked briefly about her moving here, but I just think there's more benefit to my moving there.
That's all pretty bare bones, but I've got to work on church stuff for tonight...
It's crazy to think summer is almost halfway over, and it's not even technically summer yet.
Peace
