Fourteen years ago I stood in the same place I stood tonight. I was 21 and about to fall for the Midwestern boy with the green eyes who was trying to steal third base. Spring on the Washington DC mall – it was a cherry blossom love story.
I couldn’t have known.
I couldn’t have known that fourteen years later I would be standing on that exact same spot with that same boy.
That same boy and our two sons.
Life maps itself without our realizing. Without knowing we are standing at an X-marks-the-spot point in time we live on oblivious.
Until moments like tonight.
When we get to see what full circle looks like.
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Linked to Emily’s Tuesday’s unwrapped over at Chatting at the Sky.
And don’t you just love that that circle has gotten larger and more full than you probably could’ve imagined 14 years ago!
Oh good gracious, YES! ;)
what is up with all the tuesday stories MAKING ME CRY today? Love this. Full circle is oh-so-beautiful.
Um, you totally bring this on yourself because Tuesday’s Unwrapped are by definition extra moments in the ordinary that give us all goosebumps! We love you for that!
That was beautiful.
Oh so true. I kissed my husband for the first time at a party that was in the middle of nowhere in the country.
Five years later, we moved into the house across the street and had three babies there!
Such sweet boys BTW.
Oh my gosh – No WAY! That’s an awesome X-marks-the-spot story!! Love it.
Don’t you love when we have eyes to see it? I wonder how many we miss! This is a great one!
Indeed!
Lovely. I have my own full-circle story – last summer my family moved to the area where I was born, and we are now attending the church my family went to when I lived here as a child. It was 25 years ago that we moved away and now I’m “home”.
Those serendipitous moments just make me smile so big! Thanks for sharing.
I LOVE THIS POST – thanks for sharing!!
So beautiful!
What a beautiful story! How blessed you are to be mindful of this full circle and be so thankful for it.
Yes, exactly! Taking the time to savor those moments as they happen is such a treat.
Great post and a very sweet story!
Thanks – it kinda blows my mind some days. my 20-yr-old self would have been horrified to learn that the boy she was flirting with was gonna marry her and give her some babies – eewwwwww! ;)
Simple, beautiful, and powerful. And the color in those pictures–makes the heart catch.
Thanks – the sunset was just fantastic! Wish I had better ones of the Washington Monument, which was silhouetted in the background.
That is SO cool! We experienced that just bit by moving back to where we started dating and got married. It’s so strange yet neat to be able to relive special places and events with our 2 boys.
It’s wild, isn’t it? To walk over the same ground with your children in tow that you once walked without a clue that they would ever exist!
I love this! I love it when that happens… you can just see how God’s perfect providence is working in your life and it’s so assuring!
Yes, deeply, profoundly reassuring!
I feel like I have so many of these!
– the school my husband & I attended while dating is now where he works. It’s strange to sit in the Cafe eating with our 3.5 children where I once ate as a single 19-year-old.
– the apartment complex where my husband & I lived as newlyweds is the same complex we returned to 3 years later with our then 2-year-old son and newborn daughter.
– the church where my husband and I met at youth group was the place we had our first ministry leadership experience.
It’s so strange to me to see life come full circle like that. Great post and you make me jealous cause I’ve never been to DC. :)
Melissa! Just wow – those are some amazing full circles indeed! You know, come to think of it, the place where my husband and I met is now where he teaches as well!
so beautiful! i have some of these in my life… so does my husband… and it just reminds me of the fingerprints of God woven throughout our lives. :)
It sure is nice to know He had a plan even when I got lost along the way.
Isn’t God so amazing in the way he weaves together our stories, just like a beautiful work of art? You never have to ask God where His tools are, He never misplaces them, or lets paint dry on the brush. Everything is in perfect working order, regardless if we are, He still makes a masterpiece.
wow. That’s amazing! Goosebump-y!
Thanks for sharing. I think this story is amazing.
Soo goosebumpy! I remember exactly what Pete was wearing that night we played softball on the mall. I remember how we walked home past the Capitol. I remember how nice I thought he was. I had no idea! ;)
Beautiful story..and oh, how I love the cherry blossoms too!
They are my second favorite tree in the world!!
oh your full circle makes me smile! i have beautiful memories of teh cherry blossoms… and bringing my kids. but i never thought about how much it must have meant for my husband to bring our kids… and have them sit in the same tree he & his brother sat in every year!
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Those trees are magic, I tell you!
oh how adorably sweet! LOVE the story! :) Thanks for sharing!
Beautiful.