Ask Me and I'll Say YES!

The Engagement



July 19Th 2001






"So are you my lady?"

"Yes, yes I'm your lady"

It was like heaven on earth. The day I'll never forget. Yeah Dell forgets sometimes , well all the time about this anniversary, but I'll never forget it for the rest of my life. I don't mind that he forgets it because he never forgets our Wedding Anniversary. This day meant so much to me because I had waited all my life for the day that I'd meet my husband, the man that loved me to death, inside and out. July 19, 2001 was the day it all became real. To be a wife was my dream, more than anything in life I wanted to be a wife and have a family. I use to listen to songs and long for a man to love me in such a way that He'd give his life for me (love me like Christ loved the Church). Now, here he was. Dell was 28 and I was 27. He'd just turned 28 June 4Th and I just turned 27 on July 3rd. Now our conversations were of marriage and how we'd build our lives. We were done with the games and we both had reached a point where settling down was our goal in life. So we talked and we discussed things like partners and I received my engagement ring in April of 2002. Sorry, but neither one of us knows the exact date that he gave me the ring that I picked out myself, but we were engaged before the ring came upon my hand. Our engagement day was JULY 19Th, 2001 (remember). In our friendship we built a wide open tell all relationship so there was no question in our next steps. God had spoken and we heard Him loud and clear. We were to become one! I still dwell on our love and how it became, God didn't have to bless me. I look at my husband and all I can do is praise God for His unconditional love, and His promises.

I had a dream one night that Delmar bought me a black pearl for my engagement ring. I told him about my dream and he worried that I wouldn't like my ring because 90% of the gifts he had been buying for me I didn't like. So, he told me to go to the store and look at the ring, and if I didn't like it to pick out what I wanted. Now, I know what you are thinking, (that's not romantic at all), but hey, I had to love my ring he didn't. (LOL) So I was so excited about picking it out (of course I didn't like what he picked out, but he has gotten much better at picking out gifts for me! lol). Dell was wearing his wedding band before we were even married. Waiting wasn't necessary. Some things are just so minute when you are madly in love with your dream come true!

My Poem Of Faith

"I didn't know who, how, or when, but God told me He would send me a husband, so I started dreaming. I wanted him to be more than loving and more than fine. I wanted him to love the Lord with all of his being. God said He would do that and more. More than I could even think to ask for. As I dreamed up my Mr. Wonderful I wrote about what I thought and dreamed of him to be. It went like this:"

HIM

He walked into my life unaware of my skills. He was mesmerized by my beauty and how my presence made him feel. As time flew by and he learned new things, his love for me grew stronger, especially when I'd sing. I'd read him soft poetry and watch as his heart would beat. This man loves me to the extreme, I've knocked him off of his feet! As I sleep at night I can feel him staring upon my face, as he thanks Our Lord and mutters "no one can take her place". As he takes down the meal I prepared he explains how I'm the best. He dives into his plate full force and surfaces when there none left. The goodness of my cooking is turning my husband on. We flee the kitchen table, not returning till dawn. He's so grateful to God for leading him to me. We see eye to eye and most always agree. He didn't want to beg God, yet some how he felt incomplete. Then God spoke to his heart one day and said :There's someone I'd like you to meet." Realizing God's strength and being aware of His power, still didn't prepare him for his blessing of showers.

I rub his feet after work because his job is so hard. I massage his back daily, there are invisible scars. I run his bath and as he gets in, he thinks of my goodness and it causes him to grin. I come to wash his back after putting the kids to bed. I know he wants me to join him, his thoughts I can see through his head. Our joy could have been sin if we would not have wed, and waited on the Lord to do just what He said!


Poem




No I've never been loved like this before,

I just know it's all that I've been praying for.

The days drift by and you seem to love me more.

You are the one that I shall cherish, the one that I adore.

I never thought you could know me so well and treat me so right.

But my faith allowed me to see what was not in my sight.

And with GOD our love will remain consistent and tight.

It's truly hard to be angry with you, almost impossible to be mad.



Because I see you as my little savior, who has rescued me at last!