A Little Ditty about Mark and Charmaine for Valentine's Day


Looking for love? The best advice I have ever heard on the subject was don’t go looking for it—it will find you. Just pray you’ll be pleasant and dignified when it does. Little did I know during the summer break after my freshman year in college that love would find me. I was returning from my lunch hour at the YMCA in Altavista when it did.
“Need any help with that?” asked the handsome guy leaning out of my boss’s office door.
Taken totally off guard and with only two minutes to spare to finish my dripping yet delicious ice cream cone, I said the first thing that came to mind and not very nicely, “I don’t think so.” I disappeared into the employee room where I wolfed down the remains of my cone and clocked in.
With all the to-do taking place behind the counter, the handsome stranger was wiped amazingly from my mind. Then he appeared right in front of me, like out of nowhere. Once I looked into his smiling blue eyes I was hooked.
We were married six weeks later.
Our 20th wedding anniversary will be this July and we have seven children.

6 comments:

DanYari77 said...

6 weeks?!!Wow. Must've been a great day!!!

Charmaine said...

Pretty crazy, huh! I don't recommend doing it so fast, though. I had been praying for a husband since I was sixteen, so I knew he was a God send!

zel said...

Char, thnx 4 sharing ur beautiful story with us!!!!!Let the yrs cont to roll on!!!! Happy Valentines Day to you and yours!!!!

Loree Huebner said...

A beautiful story...thanks for sharing. Wow - six weeks? They say love happens fast.

Charmaine said...

Thank you, zel for the compliment! Blessings!

Charmaine said...

@ Loree -- meeting my husband was completely unexpected. In fact, a few days before I met him I was moaning about how boring the summer was going to be!

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