Actually, with her this would be like a THIRD chance. When she was a "child" and lived with her dad, he kept moving from one city to the next. He was not into church and didn't necessarily care for her and her brother coming "up to that dang ol' church all the time".
But what's FUNNY is that after the play when we all went to see the new Madea movie, MY WHOLE CAST WAS COUPLED UP EXCEPT ME! Imagine Li'l Tyler sitting in a restaurant and movie theatre ALONE while his whole cast is coupled up out the frame. My sister (who I believe had a sixth sense even though I was laughing and smiling) left her friend and went and bought me an extra-large Coke with no ice....and brought it to me and sat with me for about 5 mintues, which was sweet....but when I thought about it, it kinda made bad matters worse.
SO.....when I got home (around 4am Sunday morning)....I thought to myself......."Man! After all this success with the play, it sure would be nice to have a wife to come home to and celebrate with!"
Then, I wake up, get dressed (looking like a 23 on a scale of one to 10 - not knowing anything), walk in church, and there is Rachel (whom I haven't seen in a couple of years) saying that she was "back at her church home to stay and there was somebody that she really wanted to be there to hear it who was not there".
Mind you, when I said "I wish I had....." I was talking to MYSELF, but when that happened, I thought in my mind "God....were you being nosy when me and myself were talking last night?" I just felt like WOW...maybe this will be the chance for me and her.......
HE THAT FINDETH? Well, technically I walked in church and FOUND
her up there and I FOUND
the box of Kleenex under the podium when she started crying (thank God for absent minded ushers who can't remember where they put something five mintues ago). SO, I am HE that FOUND twice!
Ok.........I'm overdoing it! I see your point Reddgirl! But in all sincerity, I am 35 and have had more than my share of "single folks' kind of fun". I am ready to settle down now and just do the marriage thing with a woman who is INCREDIBLY beautiful (even more than Karen Clark-Sheard....a compliment I give to NO FEMALE), can sing and hold an alto section DOWN....and is really into Herman - even after all the transitions we've been through in life!
Maybe I just want this so bad that I'm trying to make it happen by any means necessary, but if you had seen how she has "transformed" (tried not to say developed) over the years.....MY GOD!
It will be hard to concentrate on directing the choir Saturday night with her on the front row! Maybe I need to wear shades!?
