Present from Dad

My incredibly wonderful Dad sent me my favorite flowers...
pink roses & daisies!! (And I decided lilies are now my 3rd favorite)

Are they not beautiful?!

What happened first with this whole flower thing, is a couple weeks ago I turned 20 and Dad has a tradition He began when I turned one to give me however many roses as it was I was turning each year. So....since August 22, 1989 I've been given roses....and it is a precious, precious gift to me each time from my Dad!! This year, obviously be being in Cleveland is a problem since he's not here, so he called the florist and they delivered 20 (YES, TWENTY!!!!!) baby pink roses to me. Well, they died within 4 days, so since this was a costly purchase, he called and told them about how they didn't last....and then on Friday I receive these (For FREE), SO TWICE THE PRECIOUS GIFTS FROM DAD!!!!

Along the same lines, My mom had yellow roses & daisies as her flowers in her wedding, so I decided that when it's my turn, I want to keep the tradition going. I will have pink roses & daisies and maybe some yellow thrown in there too (because it's important for me to have aspects of my mom and dad's wedding in mine). This whole marriage thing has been one area God is really working on my heart in. I've written about how I'm finding God's peace and lately it has really been in this area. My heart just longs so badly to know him now and to share college with him and to just begin this journey of being together, but I know that that is not what God wants right now. I think about being a sophomore and thinking how I've waited so long Lord and I've been single all these years and I've focused on becoming a godly young woman why can't you bring him to me now???? But I'm learning to be content and to become even more the young lady that he needs me to be...and recently just with understanding how hard the education school is here at Lee, I know my focus right now has to be becoming a teacher and studying and working hard and building relationships with people....but that is just my heart right now, is longing for someone to love and I pray every night and I know God will bring us together, but sometimes it's hard not say "why not me Lord? why not yet?"

Just a little bit of my heart, hope everyone is doing well!