Last weekend my best friend got married. Her last name used to be Cobb and now it is Chancey and I am still not ready to acknowledge it, no offense to Jonathan or anything it's just Cobb is a really good last name. The wedding was absolutely beautiful. They got married at a farm kind of on the out skirts of Milledgeville called Specht Farms. The ceremony was performed under a huge tree with rolling hills as a backdrop. And then we danced the night away under the trees and twinkle lights strung all around. It was awesome.
The story of how Amanda and I became friends has been told numerous times but, what the heck?! Why not one more time? Amanda and I met when we became leaders for YoungLife and we became friends on a trip to the Salvation Army where I was looking for jeans to make into shorts for a YoungLife character. It was POURING down rain but still we were determined to hang out with one another so we went anyways. After that, when we headed back to her dorm room, she showed me the proper technique to stretching out your pants when they are too tight. From there we became pretty fast friends. I was in her dorm room almost everyday after that I think. One night we sat on her futon for two straight hours looking at YoungLife camps where we could do summer staff and spoke in accents the ENTIRE time. It was strange. But that it us. The summer after our sophomore year was a pretty pivotal time in our friendship. We were among the few brave souls to stay in Milledgeville for the summer and through that we grew even closer. We began learning more and more about one another, mostly through talks about God and who we thought He was and also things we had always wondered about Him. It was great. We moved in together at the end of that summer and its all been history since then!
I met Jonathan through Amanda when we were freshman. One night us, along with a few other friends, went over to his dorm room where we watched Slumdog Millionaire. I couldn't tell you too many times I really talked to Jonathan between then and when him and Amanda started dating, maybe a "hey" here and a "how are you?" there, but nothing too significant I don't think. Then, when Amanda and I moved in together somehow the idea of a group date between his house and our apartment came up. We went to his house, ate dinner, hung out a little bit, and that was about it. A couple weeks later I knew something was brewing, I could feel it in my bones! Not too long after that the infamous "walk" happened where Jonathan told Amanda he wanted to pursue her and from then on it has been ROMANCE!!!
One of the cool things I got to experience throughout their relationship was the fact that Jonathan and I had almost all of our classes together. We have the same major therefore, I got to hear all the time about his side of the relationship. Mostly because I would ask him a million questions BUT, he would always willingly answer. I remember when he first told me he wanted to ask her to marry him. We were in my car and I was dropping him off after a thing we had for class. It came straight out of the blue and was also, by the way, WAY before he actually did it. They had been dating 8 or 9 months maybe. But he was so positive he wanted to marry her.
It has truly been a blessing to my life to be able to witness Amanda and Jonathan's relationship grow and become what it has. It is unlike any other relationship that I have ever experienced. I quite literally watched them fall in love with one another. The thing that has been different about these two is that there has never been one moment I doubted that Christ was at the center of relationship. They have the most Christ centered relationship I have ever seen and what is so cool is that they are so young with so much left to learn about loving one another. And I have no doubts that the Lord will completely shower them with blessings in their future together. I don't know what my life would be like right now if they were not a part of it, which makes me especially thankful for them. Jonathan and Amanda are so consistent is the way that they both love me, encourage me, and support me, no matter what crazy thing I tell them I am doing or thinking about doing or have done. They are constantly pointing me towards Jesus in just the way that they live their lives for Him. And to that I say, thank you Amanda and Jonathan. I will always love and appreciate you both more than you realize and more than I will remember to tell you.
ON TO THE PICTURES!!
TTFN,
Jessica
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