Scott, my boyfriend, and I marked our first anniversary as a couple yesterday. We didn't celebrate it last night, as we both had plans already, and Scott, unfortunately, spent the night violently ill from food poisoning a la Chipotle. He is recovering well, thanks to God. So we will officially celebrate it this coming weekend, and I am so looking forward to that.

It's an interesting concept to be in a relationship with someone. Here you are, bopping around life as a happy (or mostly happy, depending on the day) singleton, and you strike up a lovely conversation with a man who makes you laugh and has amazing blue eyes, and then, boom, there you are, in a relationship. And then a year later, you realize that it's been a great year. But you weren't really looking for it, and especially not in the place that you found it (acting). It strikes me as a very real reminder that God often knows what's better for us than we do.

I have issues with this concept in practice. In theory, I love the idea that God is in control of my life. Things are better when I can just surrender to the Best Idea. But I have this itsy-bitsy control problem, where I think that I know how a story should end, and so I do my darndest to make sure that is, actually, how the story turns out. The problem with this theory, of course, is that only God knows how the story should end, and so He sees my short-sighted maneuverings, and steers me away from my path and onto His. Which leads me into what I think are happy accidents, like my relationship with Scott, but what are actually divine workings into an overall big-picture plan.

Anyway, it's been a great year. We are both so different that it's like we talk a different language sometimes. This has made things both challenging and particularly rewarding. There is such value in something that you work on and for, much more than in something that comes without effort. And we have learned a lot about ourselves and each other...it is such a maturing process to be in a good relationship, you learn things that you will only learn from being in that relationship. Scott understands me better than any other man on earth (poor guy!). And he still makes me laugh, and he still has those amazing blue eyes, and he holds my attention across a crowded room like no one else can. And so I think that I will thank God tonight that He knows so much more than I do! I am truly blessed!