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Do you know who has a funny sense of humor? Our Sweet Jesus. So as most of you know, Blake LOVES football. His dream was always to play college football. Following his senior year, he was blessed to recieve a scholarship from Holmes Community College to play football. He was super excited about this opportunity, but it is funny how the Lord can change your dreams. Once he got out there, he had a feeling that this was not what he was supposed to be doing. He was not sure what that feeling was at the time, but he knew that for whatever reason, God was leading him back home. He decided that it was time to hang up the cleats and venture back to Jackson, MS. Being the football guy that he was, this was a very tough decision for him to make. This decision occured during his fall semester at Holmes in Goodman. Because of his decision to come back home, he decided to take a semester off and restart college in the spring at Holmes in Ridgeland. Fast forward a few months, I was in my senior year of highschool. I had the opportunity to dual enroll at Holmes in Ridgeland. This meant that I was able to take a few core college classes. I chose to take College Algebra in the fall, which left Compostition 1 for the spring. Since Blake was starting college back in the spring, he had all of his core classes to take.This led us to unknowingly end up in the same Composition 1 class. We had no idea who the other was at the time. On January 16, 2013 our eyes locked for the first time. Blake likes to say that he did his first and only "triple take" in this moment. Neither one of us knew that this moment would lead us where we are now. After a month and a half of Blake running out of class because he was too nervous to speak, we finally had our first conversation. During this conversation, I learned that Blake went to Jackson Academy and knew both of my cousins and uncle. We learned that my uncle was Blake's personal physical therapist throughout all of his football injuries. Another conversation led to the biggest Ole Miss fan (Blake) telling me that he was planning to attend Mississippi State in the fall. He had no idea that I was planning on going there at the time. For some unknown reason, The Lord led this huge Ole Miss fan to have the urge to want to attend MSU. I then told him that I was going to MSU in the fall, and he was stuck now! No going back! ;) For a whole week, our conversations continued to grow deeper and deeper. We both realized we wanted the Lord to be our number 1 priority in our relationship. We discovered so many similiarities, as well as differences. This led us to begin our relationship and the continuous journey that we are on now. We both attended MSU in the fall, and we both recently graduated from there as well. Looking back, Blake now understands why the Lord had him quit playing the sport that he loved so much. Quitting football brought Blake back to Holmes, back to Ridgeland, and back to Composition 1 at the perfect time. If it wasn't for God's perfect timing, we would not have been sitting in that English Composition class at 12:00 on Monday/Wednesdays. I am so thankful for his faithfulness to The Lord and his courage to drop what he was doing to come back home. It is funny how The Lord was working in both of our lives, bringing us together, without us even knowing it. I am blessed that God allowed our paths to cross, to lead us to where we are now. We cannot wait too see what this wonderful God-led journey has in store for us next!

Courtney & Blake

Courtney & Blake

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