Google Images - yes that round thing is called a discman. Where things called CDs were inserted for awesome tunes.
Reminiscing about the sappy love songs I listened to from Mariah Carey, N'Sync, and Backstreet Boys, I suddenly realized that when I listened to those songs, those were like prayers to God for Him to find me a man who would make me feel all sappy inside.
Even in high school, I didn't just want 'arm candy.' I wanted a boyfriend who would care for me and be genuinely interested in me for me. I thought I wasn't worthy of a boyfriend because I didn't look like the girls on the cover of Seventeen magazine. I wasn't rich and I couldn't buy the latest brand-name clothes or drive a stylish car. At sixteen, I was learning how to ride the bus while my other friends were getting cars. I thought I was too different, too nerdy, to shy, to nearsighted to get a boyfriend.
Somehow through my teen years, God kept me trusting in Him. Did I crush on guys I thought were cute? Yes. My friends and I spent lots of time giggling about famous guys (like N'Sync) and cute guys in our classes. But somehow I had this idea that God would bring the guy to me when I was ready.
Enter: BOAZ!!!!!!!!! :)
That's him! SQUEAK!
Sweet, kind, dorky Boaz!!!!! :)
Loves me for me, cares genuinely for me, and I make him smile - quirks and all! And I want to love him back for those same reasons :)
Wow! It's so funny how all those years back when I was laying in bed listening to my discman and wondering if God had a boyfriend for me, God was preparing my Boaz for when we would meet.... 15ish years later! He heard the prayers of my heart as I listened to my 90's love songs so one day my 60's guy (because he was born in 1969) to meet and exceed all of them :)
Aww...God is so cool preparing things even before we ask for them, sometimes things we never even thought to ask for in the first place.
ReplyDeleteAnd how can discmen and CDs possibly be old?! I just started using them a few months ago...Oh, well, at least I can go out and buy the latest in high-tech weaponry and enter the modern era with something called a "stone knife." Progress right? :-/