Keeping Christ At The Center

by Heidi & Glenn When we first met on Catholic Match, things progressed quickly from email to phone calls. We emailed each other several times a day that first week. About two weeks after our first email contact, Glenn made the first call to me. Boy, was he nervous!!! However, it was easy to speak to him and I felt like I'd known him just forever! We covered a lot of ground on that first night of calling, and we stayed in contact by phone almost daily from that time onward. As life continued, the length of calls shortened, due to the demands of work and family, but the calls remained constant. We also called each other multiple times a day. After we met in mid-June for the first time, that we didn't use CM mail so much. We used private email from that time forward. Glenn regularly used the emotigram feature to send me a hug, a flower bouquet, etc, and I did the same for him. One call I remember in particular is in May of 2005. I was considering participating in some kind of May "get to know them" thing. I wish I could remember what it was called...May Madness? The idea was to be paired with an eligible single of the opposite sex. get to know that person, and maybe hit it off. I had already submitted my name before really getting to know Glenn. By the time pairings were about to start, I had developed a conviction to call Glenn and ask if he wanted me to participate, or if he wished to just keep it between himself and me, outside of the "May Madness" activity. He indicated he didn't want me to participate in the May Madness, so we made it exclusively between ourselves. Some of the most memorable events of our courtship include[continue reading...]

Friendships & Dating: Keeping Christ At The Center Article ID: 3413