God. Guarding. Gavin.

It was two weeks ago, and I was in Target looking at Christmas trees. I was wearing my Fresno State sweatshirt and Gavin was standing next to me. He kept glancing over and finally he said, "Hi" and of course I was taken aback. And I said, "hi, how are you?" To make the story short, he use to live in Madera and he asked if I was a FSU fan and then I told him that I was from Hanford and moved here a few months ago. (reader background, he works for the US Coast Guard) So we got done talking and he asked if he could have my number. Before I even got to the checkout, he had text me and said, "hope you have a great meeting and it was nice meeting you.". We started texting almost everyday and then we started talking on the phone. We went out last Thursday night, to Joe's Crab Shack and a movie. It was fun and he's a super guy.
Anyway, we went out Monday to Santa Monica Pier and it was there, that I looked over and the Lord told me, "You're capable of loving, it's just not him". For almost two years, I have felt that my heart was so broken over past relationships that I couldn't love someone again. Anyway, we were walking along the pier and he held my hand and I looked at it and it didn't fit. It felt "uncomfortable" and it was at that moment that the Lord spoke to me. So when he walked me back to my car, I told Gavin that I was at a point in my life where I wasn't ready for a relationship and that I really needed to focus on my ministry. As I was driving home, the Lord reminded me of something that I had written in my prayer journal YEARS ago, things that I had never expressed to anyone, until now. And they were that when I meet my husband, we will have "comfortable" silence and that when we hold hands, our hands will fit. When I got home, sure enough, there it was. And I knew that the Lord had spared me from my heart being broken.

We talked on the phone last night and I told him everything and he was wowed that I was so obedient to the Lord and he said, "you do realize that makes me like you more"... I just laughed and said, "Take it up with Jesus."

So that's it, readers. I'm still single, happily I might add, and I know that God has my Mister out there for me. I just need to remember the promises He gave me and to continue to guard my heart.