Bride Wanted by Renee Andrews

Author:Renee Andrews
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Steeple Hill
Published: 2013-08-17T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

Dear Bride-to-be,

Today is my twenty-second birthday. I’ve been writing to you for ten years now, a minimum of once a week for the past decade. I’ll be honest, I hadn’t planned on it taking this long to find you. I know, nowadays people typically wait awhile before settling down, taking advantage of time on their own to travel or establish their careers. But you know from my previous letters that wasn’t what I’d planned. I want to be a young husband, the kind that’s still overwhelmed with life in general and wants to share all of the new and exciting aspects of adulthood with his wife. And I want to be a young dad, like my dad was. He was only twenty when he married mom and just twenty-two when they had me. I remember him doing everything with me—playing outside, teaching me how to ride a bike, how to fish, how to play ball. He coached every team I was on and would get just as excited as all of us when we’d win. And after my last Little League game, the last team that he’d be able to coach for me, I saw my father cry for the first time. It didn’t matter that I had four younger brothers he’d also coach. His times like that with me were ending. And he was such a part of all of it with me, and then with all of my siblings, that it hurt him as much as it hurt us when any phase of that life ended.

I want to be like that, young enough to be a big part of their lives, to celebrate their triumphs and to cry along with them when it’s time to move on. But in order to become a dad soon, I’d have needed to have met you and set those wheels in motion. Falling in love with the woman I’ve been writing to all this time and showing you how much I want you to be a part of my world. Sometimes I think of how it will be, early marriage. Learning all of the intimacies of life and each other together. I know it’s old-fashioned and hardly heard of during this day and age, but my first time will be with you. I’ve put too much thought and effort into finding the woman God has planned for me, and I don’t want to ruin the beauty of our love by not experiencing that aspect of it with you for the first time on our wedding night.

I’m going to be honest with you again (aren’t I always?) and let you know that I’m VERY anxious for that and again, that I sure didn’t think it’d take me this long to find you. But it has. And oddly enough, I don’t think I’ve even met you yet. I know that everything happens in God’s time, and I’m praying that He will put you in my life at the precise moment you should enter, and I also pray that He’ll let me know when I find you.

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