A year and a half ago, we sat on this bridge and I told you that I knew that you were not perfect, but I also knew that you were perfect for me.  Not a day has gone by that I have questioned or doubted that.  A week before that I showed you what to me was a good model of what a godly relationship should be like.  It is like a right triangle with God at the top with the right angle and each of us down at the other ends.  The only distance we can really control is the distance we have from God.  If one of us gets closer to God, we get farther from the other.  If one of us gets farther away from God, we are both farther from each other.  Only when we both grow closer to God can we truly grow closer together. 

I got the ring out at this point.

I have a gift for you that I think is perfect for you.  It is not perfect in itself, but I think it is perfect for you and for us.  I think it can be a perfect reminder of our love.  It can be a reminder that neither of us are perfect, but we are perfect for each other.  It can be a perfect symbolic reminder of that triangle that I told you about with God being the Big Diamond and we are the little diamonds on its side. 

I got on one knee at this point.

Courtney, I want to be the one who is beside you, encouraging you in your life and your walk with God.  I so want you to be the one who is there beside me, encouraging me in my life and my walk with God.  I love you.  Courtney, will you marry me?