Finding JOY in the JOURNEY...: Blog Challenge Day 2: My First Love

September 27, 2011

Blog Challenge Day 2: My First Love

Day 2 of my Blog Challenge is proving to be a little difficult!!! When I think of FIRST LOVE...I think of my Husband because he is my first TRUE love but boy oh boy did I think I had fallen in love several times in my life...beginning in the 2nd grade. I was always a hopeless romantic and my favorite quote in High School was from Robert Frost..."Love is the irresistable desire to be irresistably desired"...if that tells you anything. But because of my life situation (being very sheltered and overweight) I never had a typical love life...lets face it ANY love life. I never got a "do you like me check yes or no" letter, never had a secret boyfriend that would sit next to me on the bus on our 5th grade field trip, never asked out on a date or had a "boyfriend" in High School, went to prom with friends and had never been kissed until I was 26 years old and met Lee! I had many friendships and what most people would consider "relationships" with boys that were my best friends but it was not the typical love story. I was just that "one of the boys" or "the sister they never had". Lee was my best friend too and started out that way but obviously, it turned into more than that eventually. I never really knew love until I met and married my husband. But even then...I don't think Lee or I knew what TRUE LOVE was until this last year. We always loved each other and cared for each other but it wasn't until we changed our lives and devoted ourselves to the LORD and HIS plan for us...did we begin to know and feel LOVE. If you would have asked me two years ago if I could love my Husband any more than I already did...I would have told you no. But NOW, I look back and see how much my love has deepened and strengthened for him that it amazes me. And I know that it will continue to grow as we overcome the 18 month trial of being apart physically. It has made us rely on communication and trust to work through our problems and we really have to express our felings to each other every day to stay connected as a couple. And it has been the greatest blessing of our marriage!!! All of this is in preparation for us to be sealed for time and all eternity in the House of the lord...His Holy Temple...and I can only the imagine the love we will feel that day and every day for the rest of our lives together. I wonder if in 20 years I will read this post and think, "Boy I didn't know a THING about love back then..." and I kind of hope I do because that means that we progressed and isnt that what this life is all about??? To progress, grow, learn and perfect ourselves to become like Jesus and doesn't Jesus LOVE PERFECTLY? So if I ever get to the point where I think we have it down pat...maybe I should check myself because until I love my Husband like my Heavenly Father and Jesus love me...than I still have work to do.

P.S. I like this blog challenge..its giving my brain and my writing skills a much needed workout!

2 comments:

Linsey said...: This is very sweet.; 2:11 PM
Janet said...: I love seeing how you have grown and the goodness in you. I love you!; 7:18 PM

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Once upon a time...

Mibi grew up in Laie and attended Kahuku High and Lee grew up in Haleiwa and Mililani and attended Mililani High. Mibi went to College at BYU-Hawaii and then served a mission in the Utah Ogden Mission before meeting the man of her dreams. After school, Lee jumped into the workforce looking for his career and eventually ended up working for Mibi's family flower shop at Turtle Bay while Mibi was serving her mission...and never thought that this job would lead him to his "Angel". We met in Septmeber of 2001 after I returned home from my mission. I came back to the flower shop to manage things for my Mom and Lee had left to pursue his education. Well a few months later, Lee's education path didn't take the direction he had hoped and instead life lead him back to Turtle Bay. The first thing he did was call Mom to get his job back and of course she said YES. So, I was Lee's boss and there was an instant friendship...it felt as if we had known each other our entire lives. We kept it strictly business for a few weeks and then one night I was gong to make a Wal-Mart run after work and called him to see if he wanted to come along. His phone was busy (the days before call waiting) and I almost gave up...but after a few more tries he picked up and from that night on we were inseperable. I think we told each other our life stories that night and we both knew then that our lives would never be the same! Over the next year, we formed a deep love and respect for each other which kept us connected through a few rough patches and across the ocean as Mibi moved back to Utah. Finally after a year of being best friends, we both realized that there is no one on earth we would rather be with than each other! We were a couple for about two years when Lee proposed to me and we tied the knot at the exact place we first met...the same hotel the flower shop was located when we worked there...TURTLE BAY. And to add to our JOY, we have a beautiful daughter Savannah (Lee's biological and Mibi's spiritual daughter ) who we just ADORE! She is so smart, funny, outgoing, a jabberbox like her Dad and just the cutest thing you have ever seen!!! We also are praying that we can give her a little brother or sister sometime in the next year or two!!! Until then we have a Doberman (Kayla) and a cat (Shadow) that we spoil rotten and of course all of our Nieces and Nephew's. It has been almost 8 years of wedded bliss and although we have had our ups and downs, each experience has made us grow more in love with each other and are still each others best friend!