We talked about marriage consistently through the fall semester, and the closer we got to Christmas break, the more we dreaded the looming summer separation. Over Christmas break, Ked came down to Lima for a few days. The details are fuzzy with age, but I remember going out one evening and having a long talk […]
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Young Love Letters – part 24
When I returned to college that summer, a dark cloud settled over my life. The insomnia of the summer hadn’t fully gone away, and I suffered a general sinking hopelessness. I was upset with myself that I couldn’t shake the darkness. After all, I had no real reason for feeling so depressed. I’d had a […]
Young Love Letters – part 23
It worked out that I was able to take one week off from camp that summer to attend the national FCM conference which was being held in Grand Rapids, Michigan for the first time. Ked made the drive up north to pick me up for the week, and my parents would be meeting us at […]
Young Love Letters – Part 22
The summer of 1996, I had taken a job working at a Christian camp in northern Michigan as a camp counselor. A friend of mine from Lima was also a counselor that summer, and we had carpooled up to the camp at the beginning of the summer, with a stop in Grand Rapids to see […]
Young Love Letters – Part 21
The spring semester was filled with anticipation and emotion. After surviving the hurdles of our first semester together and figuring out our relationship with the realities of day-to-day life and the pressures of school, we were more sure than ever of our future life together. With that surety, the level of physical attraction increased, as […]
Young Love Letters – part 20
Get caught up here! Gradually, daily life began to wear on us, and we had to figure out how our relationship worked in proximity. I was thankful that we had such a solid foundation of trust and respect to build on. Since I have always been the more verbal, speak-before-thinking, social half of the pairing, […]