Enigma

Valentines Day is a bit of an enigma for me. See, since I started learning more and more about the background of different holidays, I have been convicted not celebrate a bunch of them. Anything that has the word Saint in front of it is pretty much a no go. It says in the Bible that the only way to the Father is through the Son. No saint can intercede for me. If they could, then why would God have had to given His only Son?

The challenge comes because this in an anniversary for me. It was on this day, 20 years ago, that my sweetheart asked me to marry him.

We had been friends for years and years. He was on his way to get custody of his son and stopped by my house on the way to say hi. I knew the minute he walked in the door that we were going to get married ^.^ That was in December. It took him another 2 months and $600 in phone bills to figure it out. The cincher was my son telling him that the two of them needed a mom. When my sweetheart asked who he had in mind, he said how about that Rebecca lady.

So he got all dressed up in his dress uniform, hopped in his little car and drove to my dad's office and got his permission, then to my job, which was at a day care, and asked me to marry him. We were married in July and I still wear that ring that he gave me.

I am blessed on this day with the memory of my sweetheart heart and his son choosing to include me in their little family. Celebrating it on this day is my enigma.

p.s. My students wanted to know why the police were coming to see me. Not a lot of army guys hanging out in Eugene I guess.