Again - got this idea from another slicer...
How I Met My Husband
Running late, I swing my legs over the railing, coming in the back patio door right next to the parking lot. Oh?! Someone's sitting at the table. I begin my daily ritual of checking in with the kids at the group-home for deaf, developmentally delayed students and began getting dinner ready. I discovered he was the new on-site counselor. I noticed he was watching me and we struck up a conversation. Later that night he stopped by to check-in. I noticed we always became the last house on his route.
One afternoon as I was telling a co-worker my plans for going on a hay ride that I was chaperoning for our youth group and he invited himself along! He began to get groups of people to go out after work, then interestingly enough it became just the two of us. This continued for a while we enjoyed each others company, but I wasn't sure about a relationship right now and my parents really challenged me that this had moved beyond friendship and had become dating, Did he go to church? Where was he at with his faith? They peppered me with questions.
Finally I had to address these things as well. I shared with him that the most important thing in my life is God and I needed to be dating someone for whom that was also true. He was agnostic and wasn't sure about the whole God thing. I was sure we were done, but he insisted on coming to church with me and he began to meet weekly with my pastor. Every Sunday after church we would go to the library and he would pull out enough biblical resources to completely cover the blue, laminate, rectangular table and poor over these resources and the bible searching for contradictions. He could find none. Then God changed his heart. He knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that He existed and his faith grew and so did our relationship. This May we'll have been married 20 years!/
Congratulations for the upcoming celebration - and 20 years of marriage is worth celbrating
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful story. It's clear that God had some stake in your relationship.
ReplyDeleteIt's amazing how love grows and the changes that can occur because of love. Congratulations for 20 years!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on 20 years. Wonderful! So cute how your husband made reasons for you to be together with group outings. So beautiful how he opened himself up to something that was so important to you.
ReplyDeleteI love hear a great love story. It is so cool how he was drawn to you and so curious about your faith that he went on this mission of discovering our God. xo nanc
ReplyDeleteI like "how I met my husband" stories. Thank you for sharing yours. Congratulations on your 20 years in May.
ReplyDeleteWow, what an amazing story! I love that he "insisted" on coming to church and then found his faith while he was trying to find proof of his doubt instead. Congratulations on your 20 years!
ReplyDeleteA very touching and heartwarming story. He works in mysterious ways.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on 20 years. Thank you for sharing your story, and what is the most important thing in your life :)
ReplyDeleteLove this Jen and what a great idea for a slice!
ReplyDeleteCongrats on a successful relationship - and it is fun to hear the story of "how we met."
ReplyDeleteI've never been married, but I love reading other people's "how I met" stories.
ReplyDeleteWhat a sweet romantic story. I enjoyed the way you described how your husband came to faith in God.
ReplyDeleteI hope that someday I can tell a story as beautiful, heart-warming, and powerful! Congrats on 20 years. God is good.
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