Katie and I will have dated for 3 years this coming Saturday. It is hard to believe that all of that time has gone by, feels so much shorter then it is. I know that God has big plans for us, I can just sense that we have just started on the path He wants us on. So much has happened in both of our lives in these 3 years..
Her Grandma passed shortly after we started dating. My Grandpa passed just this last year. I have started school, pursuing a lost dream that I would not have come back to without Katie behind me. She now has a piano to play on and is working to attend Warner Pacific. And so much is going to change this summer.. I’m excited to see how and where God takes us next.
The first 2 years with Katie, well to try to remember everything that has happened in them is tough. They were full of ups and downs, doors closing and struggles. I was in a place where I couldn’t find North, but for some reason was not about to let God show me the way or didn’t want to hear it. Katie almost as soon as she found out my dream of being a marine biologist, she wouldn’t let me forget it. She knew and heard something I had begun to ignore a long time ago.
Some know that I attended Clark when I first graduated, but let’s just say I had other things on my mind then school and so I decided school wasn’t for me and decided to work. After trying construction for a time I discovered that I like to design and create web sites, starting with manipulating MySpace (it was bigger then Facebook then) pages for friends and acquaintances, I later was able to work with some friends at the church I was attending. Moving there to Kuzoa to work with that startup.
I met Katie about the time I had worked at Kuzoa a year. I had taken a couple of wrong turns in life about then and she was a light in my confusion. Full of energy and a desire for God that I had been searching for. As we talked many nights into the mornings, I knew there was more than a friendship brewing in my heart. We “officially” started dating in May of 2008 and ever since then she has become my best friend.
God has definitely brought her into my life to bring me back to where He wants me. I would not be in school without her help and loving pushes.
I write all this to attempt to put my feelings and thoughts into words, but let’s see if I can sum it up here at the end.
Katie is my best friend and the most amazing thing to ever happen in my life. I have zero doubt that God has brought her into my life for life and that without His timing of meeting her I would most likely be in a dark place. She has taught me to find confidence in God, trust in what I cannot see or feel and listen when there is so sounds. I sit here, at a school I didn’t think I would go back to writing something that I would have never written with a confidence and excitement that has only entered my life as she has. I look to the coming years with excitement and joy knowing that whatever is in store for us, God will continue to guide our decisions and steps as He has for the last 3.
To the gal that has changed my life for the best, I thank you and hope that this confusing and awkward story brings a smile to your face and a thank you to your ears. I love you and thank you for picking me those 3 years ago.
Cheers.Daryn
