Jim & Margey WatsonJim and Margey met on a blind date. She was a senior in high school, and he was attending the University of Corpus Christi. A friend from Margey's church asked her, "Would you like to meet a big fat preacher boy?" and he asked Jim, "Do you want to meet a girl who giggles a lot?" "It had to be the Lord's doing because why in the world would either of us have agreed to a date?" says Margey. For their first date, the couple double-dated with friends on Halloween. Jim and Margey lived three hours apart so they didn't get to go out again until March the following year. "After that, we started writing letters pretty often," says Margey. That's how they really got to know each other. Some of the character qualities that first drew Margey to Jim was his commitment to the Lord. "But he was also fun and respectful of me," she says. "He says I was the first real Christian girl he ever dated, committed Christian, that is." "Everyone in my hometown liked Jim from the start," says Margey. "I was writing to another boy also, but the mailman was a family friend. He would put kisses on Jim's letters to me and frowns on the other boy's." Both Jim and Margey had made commitments to purity before marriage. "We also committed our relationship to the Lord early on and made it a matter of prayer from the time we met," says Margey. The Proposal & Wedding Margey graduated high school and went to Baylor University. She would wait in the phone booth in Collins dorm every Thursday night at 6:30 p.m. for Jim to call. They would talk three to five minutes, depending on how many quarters he had. Jim proposed to Margey at Cameron Park in Waco, Texas. On Thanksgiving weekend, he talked to her family and gave her the ring. They got married nine months later on August 28, 1959. One of her favorite wedding memories was when she started down the aisle on her father's arm and saw the smile on Jim's face. "All the pre-wedding jitters faded as I realized that the moment had finally come," shares Margey. Married For Life "I've learned that when I said 'I do' it meant standing by him no matter where the Lord called us to serve, making a home where he loved to be, and just enjoying doing life together. Life has not been dull married to this man! I've loved it!" "He says he has learned that even though we are different in many ways, we complement each other," she adds. "The importance of waiting for the right mate, the Lord's choosing, cannot be stressed enough." She challenges others to not let relationships grow out of infatuation but from the sense of the Lord's leadership. "Life will not always be sunshine and roses, but with a special person even the hard times bring you closer together and to your commitment to the Lord. I firmly believe that the wait is definitely worth it - no regrets." "I've learned that when I said 'I do' it meant standing by him no matter where the Lord called us to serve, making a home where he loved to be, and just enjoying doing life together."
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