Hi there. I've never met you, but I hear we are going to be great friends. I just thought I'd write to introduce myself. After all, I'll be moving my whole life to your city in just three short months.
I think it still shocks my mother how much I love the city. After all, I grew up in a town where the closest Wal-Mart was an hour away. But I'm a city girl at heart.
I fell in love with Saint Paul, Minnesota more than six years ago, and I always hoped I'd live here. It was my dream, and I could barely believe it when that dream came true. God in all His goodness led me to the very place I had longed to be. But now (to quote the movie "Tangled")...now I have a new dream.
Cincinnati...YOU are my new dream.
It started slowly. You see, this past year I was busy falling in love with my soon-to-be-husband. And as I slowly started to build hopes and dreams of what our future would look like...you crept in. It was a maybe. It was a hypothetical. But...what if?
I never used to like adventure. This adventurous side of me is fairly new. I'm not a big fan of change, and yet I'm currently planning a wedding and preparing to move to a city I've never been to before. So something obviously happened, huh? Yeah, I fell in love. I fell in love with Christ. And I told Him He could do whatever He wanted with me. I didn't quite realize what a can of worms I opened with that statement. What a crazy and hard and BEAUTIFUL can of worms.
Now its just two short weeks until I visit you for the first time. I'm SO excited! Because I know that God has an incredibly beautiful plan for for Ryan and I...and you are part of it, Cincinnati. I still love Saint Paul and I always will, but for now I know that we are being called somewhere new. And I know that it is going to be GOOD.
You are my new dream, Cincinnati. See you in two weeks.
Love,
Catherine
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