Hello, I want to invite you in to my life. Its not pretty, its not perfect, but its mine and I praise God for all that I have gone through. I am so full of JOY when I think of my family and my friends God has blessed me with. Some of the things I will talk about will get a bit harry. I am going to go back to begin my journey with you. When I was 18 years old I met my future husband. It was at a summer leadership camp with all the churches in the state. I was in a small group that year, only 7 other students. When I walked up to my family for the week. I saw a white guy with a fro! Funny to remember, but he looked good. After his hair I immediately caught his smile. WHOA! But I was not there for a boy. No I was there to meet with God.
So I quickly prayed that God would allow me to focus on Him and not this boy. That worked...up until Thursday night. I couldn't get him out of my mind. On the way back to dorms for the night he spilled his guts and was interested in me too! What girl doesn't secretly want to come home from camp with a boy. So we quickly started dating. He decided to attend the same college as me since we were both studying youth ministry. And off we went! About 6 weeks later we were engaged - right around mid September and by the time Thanksgiving came God stepped in.
I was walking on campus and knew God just wanted me to be alone so I crawled behind bushes near a wall just to meet God. I knew He did not want me with this man right now. I didn't know why and worse I didn't want to tell him. So I accepted God's direction and pleaded with him to tell (lets call him J.) He did.
That night J was uneasy. I knew why, but he didn't know I knew yet. He struggled and asked me how his uneasiness made me feel. "impatient" was all I said and that threw him off. But after another day we finally ended it.
Where is the happy ending...it is still coming. I saw J once in the next two years. It was at the same camp. The second year I saw him again and everything started to unravel. J sat me down one evening and told me all that God was doing in his life. This went on for awhile. (so you know: I knew what was coming. Or so I thought. I thought he was going to tell me he still had feelings for me, or maybe he wanted to try dating again. Ya I thought I was all ready for him. NOT) He continues and nonchalantly as if not even starting a new thought J says this, "Oh, by the way, you are the one God wants me to marry."
Ya, NO, I was not ready for that. My response, "I want nothing to do with this. Change the subject or I am going to bed."
He casually added, "That's okay, I will wait. I just thought you should know."
Well I told him a week later that we could pray about dating and just be friends for at least 6 months. However, we were married 4 months later!
And that is how we got started.
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