Dance with me.

    *Dance with me...* What beautiful words. As I've grown I've started to see life as a dance. Sometimes it's low, and sometimes it's fast. Nevertheless, a dance. I watch my parents love eachother everyday since I can remember. I've watched the stresses life has thrown at them and I've watched them come through. I've watched them come through even stronger and more beautiful than before.  It's sort of funny the way I've looked at my Mom and Dad. Most of the time, they're just Mom and Dad. I don't often think of them as Kristy and Tyler. I don't often think of them as once being my age. I'm not sure why, I just don't.
 Yesterday Mama pulled out some letters and pictures from when her and Dad (meaning my stepfather) were first together, just married, and awhile after their marriage took place.  I got to read letters that Dad had written to Mom, and letters Mama had written to Dad. I was in utter awe of the love those pieces of paper held within them. It was incredible. As I read some of them I felt as if I were in a love story I had read long ago. I look at my parents now and see what bonds them together. I see their love and their friendship. I see that they loved eachother from the moment they met. I see that, that love is not just in movies. The movies have it right. The movies just tend to leave out the things that truly bond the couple together. I've learned as I've watched and listened, that marriage is not the easiest. It's not what they portray it to be, in most romantic movies. It's more. It's, as my Mama always tells me, marrying your best friend. I've always heard while watching movies and other love things that they talk about soul mates. What pretty words. lol I mean, how happy does that sound? It sounded pretty good to me. But, if you really think about it. Why would God make a person  just  for  you.  I think that's why there are probably so many couples getting divorced nowadays. They want there Soul Mate. I don't belive one exists. I belive our loving Father has something different but,  just as happy. He has Life Mates for us. Life Mate...I read those words in a  book recently and they made such sense to me. God will not send me a perfect person, made just for me, that I will never struggle with in life. He's made me a Life Mate. Someone to walk my life with until I get  Heaven, and I'll be the same to him. I won't be some perfect match for my husband, and just because we'll be together, doesn't mean that nothing will ever be wrong. Like I said, the romantic, love movies have some of it right, but not all of it. Until God sends me my husband or me to him, I will wait and learn to be the absolute best Life Mate I can possibly be. So here I wait, practicing my dancing until I hear the words, "Will you dance with me?" ...:)