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| Hey All!
Sorry I've totally dropped off the face of Xanga-land. But I know y'all
want to hear the story, and Sunny (my fiance!! love saying that) did
such a great job on writing about it on his own blog so I'm ripping it off his site. I'm sure he won't mind.  Here it is:
I was driving down from Albany the
night before in the rain, wondering just how am I gonna do this. The
nice warm days are well behind us, and it's just going to get colder
from here on. I had always hoped to propose by the water, under nice
weather... but it didn't seem like a possibility. The weather report
was very bad for the weekend. Then I thought to myself, doing this
indoors might be just as nice. When I arrived at her house that night,
I left a dozen roses and a small box on her porch. The box was just big
enough to hold a ring... (it actually was the box the ring came in).
When she found it, I told her to open it. To her surprise, it was full
of Hershey's kisses. [Side note:
He didn't mention that the box had a sweet little note inside that
said, "Hi Glennis! I hope you enjoy these Hershey's kisses. Now come
and get a real kiss! I love you." Hee hee]
I thought it might be more special to
propose somewhere other than her house. Since the plan was to do this
indoors, I had planned to take her to a nice museum in Manhatten. God
had other plans.
DATE: October 28th, 2006. TIME: approx. 3:15pm. LOCATION: Central Park, New York City.
The
rain ended in the morning, and it turned out to be a beautiful autumn
day with a nice breeze. We never made it to the museum. Instead we went
for a walk in Central Park, something I've never really done before.
And we came across bow bridge, one of the most beautiful cast iron
bridges in the world. [Side note: We were actually looking for this spot because its my favorite place in the park! It took awhile for us to find it...]. It was overlooking the lake, with the 5th avenue
skyline in the background. I thought to myself.. this has got to be the
place. So I said "Glennis, I want to ask you something". I pulled out the ring, held my breath, got down on one knee and said... "Will you marry me?" ... And she said "Yes! I will marry you".
This is all very special to me... the right place, at the right time,
under the right conditions... and most definitely, the right girl. :)
Glennis and I have known each other
since childhood. We have been good friends for many years. I spent a
good 7 years of my life praying for her... just praying. She has been,
and always will be the most special girl in my life.
We
started dating on August 13th this year, after some careful thought and
prayer. Yes, after only 11 weeks, we got engaged. Dear friends... when
you know, YOU KNOW. It does not require a set number of years of dating
to know that someone is the one. The formula for a successful marriage
includes... 1)having your lives focused on God; 2)being best friends
with each other; 3)and being totally in love with each other! ...
Everything else is secondary.
So,
there's a wedding coming up, but I'm not sure when. I've never been
engaged before, so this is all very new to me. But I do feel blessed.
There are some things that I can only dream of happening... this is one
of them... yet it's not a dream. God has been faithful in so many
things. It is He who orchestrated everything, and it is He who deserves
all the honor and praise. May it be so... for as long as we live.
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| I'm engaged! Details to come... 
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| It's 3:30 in the morning and I have all these thoughts running through
my head. So I figure writing them down somewhere will help me
fall asleep. If none of the following makes sense, at least now you
know why...
For those of you who prayed for my evangelism workshop this past
weekend, thank you!! It went (in my humble opinion) phenomenally well.
I showed a clip of the Evangelism Linebacker and now the kids are going around tackling each other (oops). Despite two students falling asleep (both
were in the first row too) and a major typo in my handouts (instead of
the title of the workshop being "Got Jesus?" I had written "God Jesus?"
which sounds like I'm questioning the divinity of Christ!), in general
I felt that people got the gist of why its important to share our
faith, and the basic knowledge of how to do so. Plus, we got into some
great discussion, and I just had fun sharing my thoughts/experiences
and hearing theirs too. PTL
So part of the reason why I can't sleep is I've been thinking of this question: What is racism?
Awhile ago, I was hanging out with a friend and I mentioned that I was
attracted to Asian guys, specifically ABC's. And he responded, "that's
so racist." I was a bit taken aback, because I never thought of it as a
racist comment or feeling. I always figured that being ABC myself,
someone who wasn't one may not totally understand where I'm coming from
or be able to connect with my family and such.
At the retreat I just came back from, there was a korean speaker (this
was a Taiwanese-American retreat, btw) who was simply fantastic: totally funny,
engaging, and gospel-centered. One of the reasons why he was so great
was because he used so many culturally-relevant illustrations...talking
about "parents who embarass you on vacation by their outfits" and "the
deadly combination of stinky tofu and kimchi." At one point he was
doing a pretty good "white guy" impression (coincidentally just as the white pastor of one of the participating churches walks in). We were all rofl. I can't do him justice, but he was hilarious and his jokes reminded me of this Russell Peters clip.
So it brings me back to the question of racism. Was it racist for the
pastor to tell jokes about "hokey white churches" or for me to have a
general affinity for ABCs (don't get me wrong, if a guy looks like Matt
Damon, I'll be taken!)? Personally I don't think so, but I can't
explain why. But maybe I'm wrong, and if so I'd like to change....
I'll write more on this topic when I get some sleep...but first, any thoughts?
Ok, back to bed.
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| My brother got into a Cash Cab today!! How cool is that?? He and a friend won $800....
Double or Nothing Question: The moon Io revolves around what planet?
(My brother got this question right, by the way)
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