The Flight

November 4, 2010

It seems forever ago since we met each for the first time at BWI. At that point, we'd been talking on the phone for two months. We'd met through a Christian dating website in August, though both of us were subscribed to the site sort of as a joke or without any intention of meeting a future spouse. Ian and I had been burned by other relationships the year before, so we wanted to just develop friendships within our churches and online, so that we could have people our age to exchange intellectual thoughts with and have some kind of companionship. Ian was definitely at the stage in life of thinking he wanted to get married in the next few years. I was just in the I-don't-know-what-comes-next stage. I had kind of given up on my dream to be married before age 25. When Ian and I started corresponding on this informal, conversational dating website we found that we had a lot of similar theological, biblical, cultural views. We enjoyed each other's thoughts and ideas so much that we would talk up to 25 hours a week. And we talked about everything. Past relationships, present decisions, future goals; stupid stuff, silly stuff, serious stuff; our interests, our pursuits, our differences. We really knew each other well, so it made sense for us to meet in person. Ian says now that he knew I was the girl for him before we met in person, whereas I just wanted to have fun with the whole experience (as you can see in the picture above). But here we are now, nearly two years later, and we are best friends and true companions (as you can see in the picture below). We're thankful we took the risk of meeting and then chose to take the flight of love together.

March 31, 2012