[nafai]

This weekend marks the one year anniversary of my first date with my wife...we have been married for almost 5 1/2 months now as well!

Just weeks before my wife and I started dating, I was very discouraged about my prospects for a romantic relationship. I am physically different than most (I'm have some form of dwarfism, I'm only 4'6") and found that not too many women were interested in dating someone shorter than them. Needless to say, I had nearly gave up on the hopes of finding a relationship.

During this same time, however, I was tired of some other things in my life. I wanted to get rid of the excess in my life. I spent several weeks of working in the evenings to clean my apartment out. I got rid of clothes that were worn out or I never wore. I sold books that I would never read again at a used book store. I organized. I was making room in my life for something good. I remember very distinctly sitting in the middle of my closet in the middle of October, praying, saying that I was making this room in my life for the right relationship. I was asking God and the universe...even though I was discouraged, I was making room for it.

Long story short -- I had met my wife several months before but had never thought of her as a potential for a relationship. She had found me (after knowing me in person) on a social networking site and requested to be my friend. We exchanged instant messenger account information and one day, when I was bored, I started talking to her. I was so not thinking of a relationship happening in my life that I wasn't getting the hints she was giving for me to ask her out. Finally, she gave up and asked me out.

By the end of the second date, I knew I was in a special relationship. It didn't take long for us to realize this was the relationship we both wanted.

I tell this long story to say that one form of the intention-manifestation is actually making room for what you want. I was doing so in a very literal way, as I reduced what I had physically. But in an emotional way, I was making room in my heart for it to happen, and asking the universe to provide. Little did I know it would only take a few weeks.