A New Adventure
March 15, 2008 by: Thomas
I am setting of on one of the biggest, most exiting and dangerous adventures of my life. And I am not talking about my trip to Ecuador.
Grace Chambers and I are now officially courting. And by official I mean Facebook official. After several meetings with her dad he asked her if she was interested in starting a relationship and she said “yes.” If you don’t know Grace yet I’ll just say you’re missing out on an amazing friend.
I don’t really know much about courtship having only observed it from a distance. In other words I have no idea what I am doing. It is fun though, in that top of the roller coaster looking down afraid for you life kinda way that is..
You know when you are about to jump out of a plane and your realize that 10,000 feet is a lot farther down than you thought? You know that as soon as you step off that plane you will feel sheer terror and then either either a happy landing or splat.
Splat is not an ending of the relationship. Splat is dishonoring God. We don’t want splat.
I want this courtship to be fun and God honoring. I don’t think those things are mutually exclusive but blending them is a challenge. We live between two cultures. One values hedonistic pleasure over holiness. The other looks down on others with contempt and pride and sees most pleasure as some form of sin.
I will be blogging occasionally on what I learn as we go. Maybe you can learn from us and avoid our mistakes.
Risk
One thing I do know about relationships is that they are risky. I think the guy especially needs to take risks and that can be hard. When it doesn’t work out it can hurt, a lot. A good friend of mine took a risk in courtship and it didn’t work out. And while he honored God he is still in a lot of pain.
If relationships were easy would we value them as much? Or does the risk and the danger make them special?
Grace and I officially started courting on Wednesday March 12. Since then Grace has the flu and I am leaving for a different continent. The challenges of long distance relationships has just been multiplied by a factor of $2 per minute phone rates and 3000 extra miles.
I can’t wait to get back to Texas 
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I was wondering if Miss Grace feels the same way about the beginning of a (this) courtship; like the numerous analogies that Thomas uses: being at the top of a roller coaster, or getting ready to jump out of an airplane. 10,000 feet is a bit farther down than first thought.
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Grace, I hope you read these blogs about you
No splat. Happy landing.
Thomas,
Congrats. I heard about this from Shaney and I was like: MAN! I need to get a facebook so I can be SOMEWHAT informed. Well, we’ll see. I may not have time for a facebook.
Mom says she approves.
I thought that I saw some chemistry going on when y’all first met. God bless y’all.
I can’t wait for you to be back in Texas tooooo!!!! :runs off crying: Naw, not really.
Still, come back.
>Brian
Thomas, I am thrilled for you and Grace (even though I have not had the pleasure of meeting her yet). Rico and I went the courtship route. . . kind of. . . ours was complicated, but it followed courtship better than any other description.
I am praying for the best for ya’ll and want to reaffirm that honoring God is the only way to go – and the blessings of doing things the right way are totally unspeakable and beyond anything you can imagine. God really does know how his creations work best! (Fancy that.) 