You’ve got one, too–a best birthday ever. I’ve had a lot of birthdays (45, to be exact) and some of them have been absosmurfly wonderful. But hands down the best ever was my 21st. Kim and Missy Parish threw a little surprise party for me. My buddy Phil Human (yes, that’s his last name) was supposed to get me to the party. The party was at a house we’d never been to, and I saw all the cars parked in the driveway on my birthday. Phil said, “Dude, they want to surprise you, so be surprised.”
That night was a turning point in my life, and it was indeed a surprise.
Kim and I had only known each other for a few months. She transferred into Toccoa Falls College in late January. My friends Rob & Ric Jacobs were Kim’s cousins’ cousins (wait, what?) so they knew her fairly well. To quote them: “Our cousin is coming to school. You’ll love her.” Kim’s brother Randy met me the day they dropped Kim off. When he got back in the van to head home he told his mom, “I just met the guy Kim’s going to go for.”
Turns out they were right. That night I held hands for the very first time with the woman who would go on to become the love of my life, my best friend, my partner in ministry. We have dreamed and dared together, laughed until we* peed our pants, wept until there were no more tears, and had our capacity for love and family blown out of the water!
That, my friends, is a great birthday! Everybody should have a birthday like that…
Check out these pics: from the birthday party, shorts and boots after a baseball game, at the Sadie Hawkins hayride, and our 1 year dating anniversary. I think we’ve aged prett well together!
*and by we, I mean Kim.
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