Ok… so I’ve got a few ideas as to where I’d like to go with this blog… but for starters I thought I’d give a little update on where I’ve been and what I’ve done the past three years. So here are a few highlights…
I guess this season began with meeting a crazy fun loving girl who, at first glance, appeared to come directly from Ireland. Introduce Val…
Name: Valerie G.
Age: 23
Hair color: red??? :-p
Current home: Northern Ireland
Valerie is a crazy, fun loving girl I met at a local college that my sister attended for a semester or so. I met her at a Halloween movie night in November of 2005 and never anticipated the trouble we would get into together. If you are ever stranded on an island and can only have one person with you I would suggest bringing this girl. There’s never a dull moment. So anyways… soon after meeting Valerie, in January 2006, she introduced me to her new friend; A girl who was known to “glow” often, a Miss Deanna H. Introduce Deanna…
Name: Deanna H.
Age: 21
Eye color: Beautiful and Brown
My opinion of Deanna may be a little biased but I believe she has the most amazing smile, the most beautiful brown eyes, when she speaks my heart melts and when she walks into the room time stops for a moment. But that’s just my opinion. So there we were… three crazy college kids with little in common but a love for Jesus and a curiosity for the things unseen. From the first moment it seemed the three of us were inseparable. We often spent late nights at Spot coffee or in the prayer room discussing experiences we had with God over the past week and asking questions and dreaming about the future He had for us. This is the season where I was introduced to things such as IHOP, Judah Smith, BASIC and many other pillars that still exist in my life.
That season lasted for a bit and then Val and I both found that we would soon be leaving NY to each go on our own little adventure. Val was told she would finally be returning to her beloved Northern Ireland and I found that I had been offered an internship as a Process Engineer at Intel Corp. This news was greeted with mixed emotions. Val had originally vowed to not make any friends in NY because she knew all along that she wanted to return to NI. Unfortunately due to Val’s attractive personality she found herself leaving many close friends that seemed to have appeared out of nowhere. I myself found I was leaving two of the best friends a guy could ever have. Bu
t I was also very excited to have an opportunity to work for such an amazing company. Val and Deanna and I spent our last few months together living out a few last adventures. I had spent the last few months getting closer and closer to God and was very excited about the new adventure facing me but I had no idea what to expect. I was leaving the house I grew up in located in NY to go work for a company with 6,000+ employees on site located 2,000 miles away in New Mexico. For those of you who don’t know New Mexico is in fact one of the contiguous states and I did not need a passport to live there 
. I was leaving everything and everyone I knew to go to a place where I didn’t know a single person. I didn’t know what would happen when I got there… for all I knew it could have been 6 months of wakign up, going to work, and coming home to sleep through lonelyness. But before I went the Lord gave me a vision and a peace. He gave me hope in the example of Moses in the dessert. He encouraged me that a season in the dessert alone with Him could be life changing and would be neccesary for the plans he had for me. He also gave me a vision of a spiritual fire starting in New Mexico which filled my heart with excitement. It wasn’t quite that easy though. Along with a vision for my future in NM the Lord also gave me a vision for my future with Deanna. So this became a huge step of faith for me. When I took the job offer from Intel I already knew that Deanna and I were supposed to be together one day. So I’m faced with one of the most crucial trials in my life… Do I take the job at Intel in NM where I feel God is callign me or do I stay in NY with the girl I feel God has brought to me? It almost felt like a contradiction… how could God bring both these things to me? was this a trial where I was supposed to choose love over career? was I supposed to choose college over relationship? No… I was supposed to choose God over both. As I spend more time with Him He showed me that both were for me… I was supposed to be with Deanna… but not yet… right now I was called to be in NM. So that season with Deanna would have to wait to begin… and boy was that diffacult. So this brings me to about December 2006…
More to come…
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Just so you know, your girlfriend is 21
lol
You make me smile.