Old Enough to Know--updated edition by Michael W. Smith

Author:Michael W. Smith
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Published: 2010-04-07T16:00:00+00:00

8 chapter eight

Who’s Your

Friend?

I’d like to tell you how I met my best friend. It was Marc 1981, and I was sitting in a hallway outside a publisher’s office waiting to go into a meeting. This cute little girl dressed in jeans passed by, and I did a double take. Our eyes met, and she smiled and went on down the hall.

A few minutes later I was still sitting there when she walked by again! This time I did a triple take and said under my breath, “I think I just saw the girl I’m going to marry.”

My next thought was, This is crazy. I don’t want to get married . . . not for a few years anyway. And then I muttered, “She must work here. I’ve got to find out who she is!”

Just then somebody came out and called me into my meeting. I confess I didn’t pay a whole lot of attention and ended it just as soon as I could. I dashed to a telephone and called my mother. “Mom, I know you won’t believe this, but I just saw the girl I’m going to marry!”

“Well, that’s interesting, Michael,” she said. “What’s her name?”

“I don’t know. I haven’t met her yet. I’ll call you back with all the details later.”

I dashed downstairs and started asking people if they knew the cute little girl with brown hair and the shy smile. “Oh, you must mean Debbie Davis. She’s new—works in shipping.” I hung out for a few minutes and finally got to meet Debbie. Then we both had to get back to work, but I didn’t get much done that day. Three hours later I was back and asked her for a date!

Debbie had a date that night, but I wasn’t discouraged. This was the girl I was going to marry! She just didn’t know it yet.

The following week we had three dates in three nights, which we spent mostly talking and getting to know each other.

At the end of our third date I gave her a quick little kiss good night and said I’d call her the next day. She smiled and said that would be great. But after we parted, she cried because she knew life was changing fast, and she wasn’t sure she was ready for it. She spent hours praying and asking God, “Am I really falling in love? Why, Lord, are You doing this?

What about all my plans?”

As for me, I was already in love and ready to get engaged, which we did three and a half weeks after we met. Four months later we got married.

Debbie Began Writing Lyrics

I suppose some people might say we got engaged and married much too fast, but from our first date I saw that Debbie had tremendous depth and dedication to the Lord. After graduating from Wheaton College, she had spent time in Haiti working with a nutritional clinic, and she had been planning to go to the University of Tennessee to get a master’s in nursing.

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