HMB

0Matt • 30th May 2008 • Uncategorized

Life is different with a girlfriend. Life is better with a girlfriend.

I think the thing that I’ve realized most since I started dating Heather almost a month ago is that I crave companionship. It is incredible having someone on the planet other than my mom and dad that sees so much of me and still likes me. For some reason I feel a need to hold my cards close with a lot of people in my life but with Heather I don’t, and it is so liberating. The more she gets to know me the more she likes me, and that is something I love. I’m learning to be myself all over again, just like I was when I began college, and it’s just so healthy.

Heather is leaving for Costa Rica for a month on June 9th and I think it’s actually going to be a great thing for us. Craig Keen offered these words to me in an email:

I think every relationship, however close, is to be worked out as if one of you would be called away in the future. Your going to Africa (and her going to Costa Rica and dating will be an exercise in that. And just because you are called away, doesn’t mean that the relationship will end. It will just be different. It is important to stay vigilant.

This is something that is really shaping my relationship with Heather because it puts to reality of living a Eucharistic life… one that is constantly giving itself for the life of the world. As Christ gave his life for the world, so too is the Church (literally, the Body of Christ) to give its life for the world.

Good exercise. I’m growing, and I know she is, too. Very good exercise.