Brad

For those of you who don't know I met someone through eharmony. I think its really funny because i was always one of those singles where i said.."There is no way i would ever go online to meet someone.." and then i did. But whats really ironic is that i only gave it 1 month..I said "God, i'll do it for a month and no longer." I stuck to that commitment and what really surprised me was that i actually met someone that i have certain experiences in common. Yes, eharmony is supposed to bring you good matches but eharmony pairs you up with someone who has similar interests and eharmony doesn't ask you the kind of things that Brad and I have in common.

Its very uncanny, ironic and exciting. I talked to him for the first time last night and it was nice to have a good conversation with someone who understands in small ways the different things that you've been through. Brad and I are supposed to meet sometime in the next month but its hard though he lives about 1hour to 1 and 1/2hours a way and his weekends are full but he just emailed me today and said that he wants to meet me a lot sooner than a couple of weeks so he's trying to work something out as to coming up here and visiting sometime.

I'm scared in a good way though. When your used to going through life by yourself in some areas its frightening to open yourself up for a different area of life. I've never been in a serious relationship and all of the relationships i have been in were ones that weren't defined so there was still this level of personal safety (emotionally wise) and now I'm meeting someone with the intention of possibly starting more and thats never really happened before. It should be interesting in a good way.

Now, just so some of you who are considered with the whole meeting someone online and then in real meeting the upfront I'll let you know some things about Brad.

He's 27, and takes care of the ranch that his grandmother left when she died. (it's a cattle ranch, and its' small)
He plays in a blue grass/folk/country/praise band with his twin brother.
He attends a not super, legalistic conservative baptist church..(it does have a full praise band that doesn't just sing hymns..lol)
Other than the cattle farm he's also a substitue teacher at a local highschool and he also teaches the Cherokee language. Yes, he is native american..but ironically he really looks more caucasion..lol

Now The uncanny things that we have in common both of are grandmothers died of liver cancer which they got from breast cancer.
Both of our mothers are bipolar.
Both of our fathers never said "i love you" first until the last couple of years.
Both of us desire to minister amongst teenagers, (teach and disciple them.)
Both of us have a big camp ministry desire.

Again eharmony just asks you for the basics and then they pair you up with someone who has a similar personality but different enough you compliment eachother the rest you decide..so all of the above things were not on our profiles and we didn't even know about each other until we started really talking.

So, you can just pray for me..it's a good possibility but just pray that i won't back away because i'm a little scared.