Laus deo semper

Are you willing to follow Christ, no matter what it costs, no matter what you will lose, no matter what people will say, no matter what people will do, no matter what people will think, and no matter who chooses to do it with you?

Today is probably one of the best days of my life. Not because I was in a blissful mood all day long, and not because everything went the way that i wanted it to. Today was good because it was real. I spent all day with the woman that I love more than I have loved anyone in a long, long, long time. I won’t go into detail, but I will say that we have had a rough history, and there are many things that I did that I regret. I have beat myself to an emotional pulp over the past year because of what i did to her, and that has caused me to become complacent with my life. While we ate at Applebee’s, we talked… a lot. It wasn’t the lovey-dovey stuff that one would expect in a young person’s life. It was (as I have previously said) real. I finally know what is going on in her head, at least as much as I will be able to understand at the moment. :) But I now know that she is willing to stick it out with me, as long as I am willing stick it out with her. I thank God every day for her, and I also thank Him for the awesome patience that I have been blessed with, because without it, I would be doing the same thing that I did in the past with her…and that is something that I promise (to her and everyone who hears it) I will NEVER do again. I am in this for the long haul, because God has given me a glimpse of what will come of it, and that prize, that end result, is something I will fight to the ends of the world for.