Ok so I know that this is so incredibly lame and maybe a little bit cliche, but I was thinking about this today and decided I would write a detailed description of what I feel like would be the perfect date.
To begin, it would have to be in the Winter, probably December or January. Preferably it would be snowing. Not the super heavy kind, and neither the skimpy little flurries. A snow shower if you will. The big flakes that if you catch on your glove just right, then you can still see the shape. It would be a Sunday.
I would wake up early and get dressed. Because it’s snowing and cold outside I would probably be wearing a fuzzy sweater and an even fuzzier scarf: very comfortable. He would come a pick me up at my place and we would drive to the closest coffee shop–maybe Starbucks–and he would buy me a cup of coffee. Although on most days I would probably go for just a straight up black coffee, on this day I would be feeling a Peppermint Mocha because of the snow. We would enjoy the coffee together and then we would go to church. We would sit together at church. Chances are, I would get cold in the sanctuary, as I always do in church. He would offer me his jacket, which I would obviously take. It probably wouldn’t help all that much, but just his offer would be enough.
After church, he would take me to lunch. No where fancy, but not fast food either. Somewhere fairly cheap and easy, like Applebees or an Italian restaurant. Lunch would be pleasant because it would give us a chance to just talk and hang out with each other. After lunch we would go back to one of our two places, probably his. It would still be snowing. We would go inside and he would light a fire in the fireplace and we would pull open the blinds to the windows so we could watch the snow keep falling. We would make hot chocolate, put in a movie, and sit together on the couch. As I usually am on Sunday afternoons, I will be sleepy so I’ll probably lay my head down on his chest or shoulder and he would wrap his arm around my shoulders. Before the movie is over, I will fall asleep, especially if I’d seen the movie already. When the movie is over, he will gently wake me up–it will be almost 5:00 and he would take me home (assuming we were at his place). The End.
I know it’s a very simple sounding date/day, but that would be ok. It would be beautiful (because of the snow) and so relaxing. I don’t think you need to spend a lot of money to have fun with each other. I would get to spend time with my special someone worshiping our amazing God, drink my favorite kind of coffee, eat a meal that I don’t feel like I have to put on airs for, and just be comfortable watching a movie. I don’t have someone I can do this with yet, but I know that one day my Lord will send me the man who will find this day to be perfect to him too. Perfectly innocent, perfectly sweet, perfectly ideal.
