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By Kate Edwards
09/12/07
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My best friend got married a few days ago. I wonder if she was scared. It's a big thing to do, obviously. But I imagine that the love that brings you to that special day is one of those wonderful surprises that is unexpected and unexplainable. It’s the feeling of finishing a truly amazing book, but still being captured in the world of the characters, not yet ready to come back to reality. Then when you open your eyes, you are almost surprised to find yourself all alone. It’s a cozy feeling, like when the sun shines through the trees and finds the tiniest flower to light on. I think that must be what getting married is like: a surprise.

Life has ways of throwing us these kinds of surprises. You see, up until very recently I had quite reconciled myself to being an old maid and never getting married. I don't mean that I wanted to be a crotchety old woman who wears only black and lives in a forbidding mansion. No, rather, I would be the sunny and spunky Miss K.B. (Katy Beth) who dresses perpetually in hues of pink and yellow. I would find a tiny country church where I could minister to children and spend my days writing anything that struck my fancy. I would have a little white house with blue shutters and fields of daisies. All the children would come over often, and we would explore my attic and old journals. We'd have chocolate chip cookies and milk and laugh always. Except I would drink Diet Coke, I hate milk.Really, the whole idea was very romantic.

Is it when we are most content that God turns our worlds upside down? Just when I had my whole life planned out, there he was. I looked him in the eyes and said “hello” and nothing was ever the same again. Surprise, he bought me perfume. It smells like Christmas. Surprise, when I’m wrapped in his arms I feel like the tiniest flower that, when illuminated, is breathtaking. For me, he would buy a little white house with blue shutters, and for him I would live in Seattle and fight traffic and rain. I hate traffic. But I think I wouldn’t mind the rain, if I had him to read to me and we could imagine other worlds together. He loves my laugh and he calls me Beth, his Beth. Maybe I could still be sunny and spunky and wear pink and yellow, and blue? He loves blue. Surprise. I’m going to marry him soon. Surprise, I’m not scared of that special day. I love surprises.

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