Not all that long ago, there would have been little reason to think we would ever meet, much less fall in love and spend the rest of our lives together. Jason was clerking for a judge in Nevada with every intention of moving back to Washington D.C. For her part, Summer had left Baylor and moved back home to Colorado to be closer to her family.

But, as Proverbs reminds us, “a man’s steps are from the Lord; how then can he understand his path?”

Jason ended up clerking with a married couple from DFW while two of his close law school friends ended up in Dallas. This coalition lobbied him enough to execute “the Dallas option” and accept an offer to join Gibson Dunn’s Dallas office in September 2022. Summer found herself visiting friends in Dallas regularly, so much so that she found a way to move her life and career in hospitality to Dallas earlier that same year.

But being in the same city was only the first step. Both of us quickly found wonderful but different churches in the area, limiting the chances of meeting. That was until Summer started serving in the junior high ministry at her church with Matt and Carissa Scorcio. The three hit it off and quickly became dear friends. And Matt just so happened to be a senior associate at Gibson Dunn. Jason got to know Matt more through work and eventually met Carissa at a Gibson Dunn Christmas party in December 2022. Carissa and Matt started scheming, and soon enough Jason had Summer’s phone number and was asking her out on a blind date (well, as blind as a date in 2023 can be).

Our first date was at Las Palmas, a local Tex-Mex restaurant. Nerves were present on both sides, but we enjoyed all of the usual first date conversations and quickly set up another date to follow. Soon enough we were off and running, with many of those early dates including late nights listening to music in a parked car and getting to know each other more.

And, after about 4 weeks of dating, Jason asked Summer to officially be his girlfriend ... which it only took Summer about 24 hours to accept! Time together increased, steady rhythms such as a weekly movie night took hold (favorite movie: Remember the Titians; least favorite: Barbie), and just like that the couple was merging more and more of their lives together.

Those early phases of the relationship included some special days. Summer took charge of celebrating Jason’s birthday, which included church, a brunch with friends at Smoky Rose, a beautiful dinner at Monarch, and ultimately an Ed Sheeran concert at Cowboys Stadium.

S&J

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