{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"Faith, Hope, and Love Fellowship Church","provider_url":"http:\/\/www.fhlfc.org","author_name":"fhlfc","author_url":"http:\/\/www.fhlfc.org\/author\/fhlfc\/","title":"Just Talking","html":"[column width=\"1\/1\" last=\"true\" title=\"\" title_type=\"single\" animation=\"none\" implicit=\"true\"]\r\n\r\nJust Talking\r\n\r\nThe mild weather in the Southern United States reminds me of days gone by, when my husband and I were teens and we were, \u201cjust talking.\u201d Since we were \u201cjust talking\u201d we did simple things like talk on the phone and go on dates. We talked on the phone for hours about little things, because after all, he didn\u2019t know me and I didn\u2019t know him. We talked about what kind of car we wanted; whether we liked \u201cchurch\u201d and which church we liked (we were in the same denomination, so that made things easy); what we wanted to major in when we got to college; whether we wanted to be marry some day and how many kids we wanted. We just wanted to get to know each other, because we were \u201cjust talking.\u201d\r\nOne of our favorite dates when we were \u201cjust talking\u201d was skating. He liked to skate and I wanted to learn to skate, so roller skating was perfect. I was a fast learner and soon we were skating slowly on the \u201ccouples only\u201d songs. I would imagine I was Mrs. Franklin as we slow-skated!!! He skated backward with such confidence and finesse, but, I would never tell him because we were \u201cjust talking,\u201d and \u201cnot serious.\u201d Another favorite dating spot were my school\u2019s football games. Since our drill team performed at half-time, he would come to see me perform and take me home after the game. Of course he would hold my hand, but that was it because we were \u201cjust talking.\u201d\r\nOur third dating \u201chot spot\u201d was church!! We dated at his church, at my church, at his mom\u2019s church, at the church his dad pastored, and as visitors at churches uncommon to both of us. This was fun for us because we both really \u201cliked\u201d going to church. In our culture we only went to church services two Sundays a month and we attended Sunday School every Sunday. But we liked to attend church services so much that we attended services every Sunday I guess it was a \u201cgiven\u201d that we would be in ministry. \u201cJust talking\u201d was the bomb. \uf04a\r\n\r\n[\/column]","type":"rich"}