I really want to thank you guys for the advice. And yes I am still trusting God would have me be with my ex. I practically given up on dating forever until he comes back. Yes, that was my decision. Call it a toss in the wind... but that was what I decided as of last night. Until my ex comes back, I give up on dating. Now, I haven't dated anyone or had any interest in anyone since the break-up, but I'm withholding myself from dating until he comes back and reunites with me. That shows how much dedication I have in this prayer. Because you guys have known me for 8 months and this still burns inside of me... So you guys have no idea how surprised, even at myself, to have this still as a prominent prayer. Many have given up at this stage but I will not... Once something is really and truly in my heart (and I've been practically born with this, I mean here I am since the age of 9 wanting to be an animator and now I'm in college for animation 10 years later, so yes I've been born with this trait) that I will stop at nothing to achieve what I desire or dream up. It took me 10 years to wanting to be an animator... and here I am in college for animation. If I can do that, then this is no problem to continue to pray for this either. I've had my ups and down on being an animator too. Mom wanted me to be a doctor. Dad wanted me to be a police officer. I said no. I said no for 10 years. And now I am living my dream as to becoming an animator. I've had my ups and down on my faith back then too... then my dream finally became reality. So I believe this will happen in the same situation too.

And I know others have been through the same... and most have been reunited with the one they have been praying for. My older sister: waited on her first husband to reunite with her for 25 years. 25 years and she still wanted him. He was in jail for several charges. Yet she still wanted to be with him. They got divorced before he went to jail. Even though she was married 3 more times... in her heart that was not what she wanted. She wanted to wait for the one she truly loved, even though he was in jail. And here they are 25 years later, he's out of jail, and they're reunited and doing great. And remember my mom's story about wanting a baby even there was a time when it was 90% impossible to do so when one of her ovaries had to be removed because one of the babies she wanted to have was developing in her fallopian tube and had to get that and her ovary removed, making it impossible to have a baby in the way it had to be removed? Here she is... well here I am... 19 years later. So that's another die-hard prayer they had happen. So I believe it'll happen to me too. My mom prayed for... hmm... around 9-10 years on that one.

So you kind of get what I'm saying. My family has this "dream written in stone on the heart" thing and apparently I have it too. *laugh* But this and all of the other prayers you have seen me posted in the past mean a lot to me... all of them mean a lot to me. It would definitely make my life just that much better and then... you know I can be that testimony that dreams do come true through prayer. It happened to my family, and I believe it'll happen to me. Please keep me in your prayers. If (and I dislike the word 'if') it doesn't happen this week, that does not mean I will give up. That just means I'm not trying hard enough. That means I have to try harder. If (that word again) it does happen, then I can take this miracle and make it into something that much greater. A win-win situation right?

So I thank you guys and I will update you/ask for another prayer request throughout the week. Promise.

~Mel-S