This wasn’t just any instructor. This was Dr. Ron Sauer, Greek teacher and Bible expositor extraordinaire. After grace’s hype, we signed up and spent the next several summer Sunday evenings at park community church’s rented ballroom space on germania place, learning about king solomon’s design of romantic prose, and God’s design of romantic life. Dr. Sauer has a strong southern accent and a passionate, straightforward teaching style. He also incorporates grammatical terms like “epanadaplosis.” Grace and I quickly acknowledged that we both shared a love for words and she declared us “word nerds.”
It’s a point of pride we share that it was Dr. Sauer’s class on Song of Solomon that helped initiate our true dating period.
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Over the summer, we maintained the habit whenever possible of meeting after work and walking to millennium park and chicago’s summerdance series on Michigan avenue. Grace knew east coast swing and I knew salsa dancing from a year or so of classes at latin street dancing on lasalle, so we used what we knew and learned whatever they offered.
It was early in our relationship when I discovered grace’s inventive, tasty, and healthful culinary prowess, as well as her generosity with it. She’d pack me a little dinner for the park and we’d dance and talk the nights away.
Talking has always been easy with grace, and communication has been foundational in our relationship ever since.
I recommend to my male readers that are in relationships that you be intentional in elevating communication to the top of your list of goals. It can easily drop off along with the newness of the relationship. Initiating and nurturing communication is difficult for many men (myself included) yet vital to healthy marriages.
After a few months, we began talking casually about marriage, it was just so easy.
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