Pop.Quizzes.

Fall break is here! My first & only Fall Break as an engaged woman, might I add. It feels great to r e l a x, and spend some time with Walker. Unfortunately, our academic schedules never line up...meaning while I'm here, Walker is not on Fall Break & must keep to a semi-normal schedule--class, meetings, homework, etc.

Tonight while he is at a choir rehersal, I've set up camp in a Barnes & Noble down the street. It's made for some pretty great people watching. Anywhere in Asheville makes for some great people watching actually. There are tons of couples here--and I think they're really on to something! What a fun & inexpensive night out. Coffee + dessert + books & magazines galore + big comfy chairs. Sounds like a perfect date night to me!

There is one couple sitting a few tables away that has particularly caught my, uh, ear. [Is this creepy of me? Well perhaps they shouldn't talk so loud.] For the last fifteen minutes, they have been drilling eachother on...themselves. Almost like a "pop-quiz?" Their favorite band, their favorite food, their favorite TV shows...I think they may be on a first date. She keeps twirling her hair & applying lip gloss while he stares at his oversized sk8r boi shoes.

They've got me thinking...how well do I really know Walker? Or perhaps the more convicting question: How well do I really know God? How well do WE really know God, Walker & I as a couple? I came across this quote earlier this week that hits the nail on the head:  

:::A magnificant marriage begins not with knowing one another but with knowing God. --Gary & Betsy Ricucci :::

Knowing eachother is obviously important. Walker & I have spent countless hours discovering things about eachother. But how much MORE important is it for us to know God? To really know Him. To know His mercy & love, but also His judgement. To know & model His kindess, and forgiveness. If we spend more time learning about eachother rather than learning about God...we are missing what the point of marriage really is. It is not a tool to increase our happiness, but a gift to inhance our ministry.

That couple was certainly not wrong to learn about eachother. And I only hope to learn more and more about Walker as we spend the rest of our lives together. But my prayer is that I won't allow myself to fall into the trap of spending more time studying my husband than I spend studying God. May I constantly learn more about each of them, through each of them. I have never liked "pop-quizzes"...but if I were given one on God, or on my husband--may I be the kind of wife that is prepared for both.

Now...off to browse through heavy & expensive bridal magazines that I would never actually buy. Happy Fall Break! :)