How well do you ever really know someone?

Right now I have a class speaker who is providing my students with life skills... and it just got me to thinking.

I have a friend who I will call Derrick. Derrick seems to be in a loveless marriage. He says he feels as though he moved to fast. Keep in mind that he dated his wife for almost five years prior to their marriage. When he told me that, all I could say was word? I mean my pastor at church knew his wife for 6 weeks from meeting to marriage and they are still together after 30 plus years. I have always had this dream of the man of my dreams knocking me right off my feet. No worries, no past, nothing that would keep our love from being as pure as possible. He is this awesome man of God who understands my passion for the community and solving social ills and is ready to do what it takes to help to make the world a better place.

At 28, I am hopeful that he exists and that more importantly his is not someone in my past. I don't know that he isn't someone I am looking at right now, but I can't say.

If he is man that God has sent FOR me and only me... I don't think it will take five years to figure it out. I hope that he sees me and realizes that I am the blessing that he was destined to share dreams with, love without bounds, and build a family with.

Until that day... I wait.