What if we had met in high school …

Fred and I had a blast yesterday chatting throughout the day about what it might have been like if we had met in high school …

(My pastor and his wife were high school sweethearts! It’s hysterical–and wonderful–to see their photos from proms and homecoming dances, West Point, seminary, etc. Oh, to have grown up with the love of your life!)

These are the things Fred and I wondered about …

– Would we have competed too much with each other for first chair trumpet?
– What would it have been like for me to accompany him in all of the musicals?
– At least he would have been in Spanish club and I would have been in French club.
– And he’d be in all of the math and science classes that scared me to death.
– Would we have been on speech team? Drama club? Co-captain of this? President/Vice-President of that?

I assured him that I would have had a big ol’ crush on him back then for the exact reasons I fell in love with him in grad school …
– His kind and gentle love for God and people
 – His intelligence, humor, musical gifts
– His steady, solid, safe, happy security
– His super-handsome-wonderfulness

(He assured me that those things might not have been so evident back in 1986. But who knows?)

It’s silly, but true … I had so much fun picturing us back with our 80’s hairdos, going to dances, meeting each other’s friends and families …

A simpler time of life. Not necessarily better, but just different. Less complex in some ways. Strange and scary in others. Maybe we would have been best friends? Maybe we would have lead each other into sin? Maybe we would have laughed at each other’s tights and hats in Madrigals, shared pizza at the mall, DQ blizzards (with extra topping) by the river.

Thank you, God, for saving my soul back in high school. (Thank you, friends who lead me to the Savior! I wish I could find you and thank you again. I google you a lot to try to do so.)

Thank you, God, for introducing me to Fred in grad school and for (just about!) ten years of wonderful, safe marriage.

Be glorified in our marriage, friendship, family, I pray. Amen.