God is so good. He is so awesome. Follow Jesus & do His will & He will give you the desires of your heart. I have many desires but one of the most important ones is a perfect partner that God chooses for me. Every night for the past four months I would ask God, "I pray for my future wife Lord. I pray that she will fall more in love with you tomorrow than she did today." If I only knew this little secret many years ago I might of met Claire earlier. Wow, what can I say about her? She is so on fire for God that I think I might have troubles keeping up with her on this journey of ours to serve God's will.
I'll start from the day that I saw her in San Francisco back in April 1, 2002. I was there to visit my parents. They are missionaries at a church in SF. They took me to church on Sunday and then the service started. I was sitting on the right side of the church & then all of a sudden a super cute girl walks in late & sat down on the left side of the church. I thought to myself, "Nice work God!" and that was it. I didn't introduce myself after service because on a closer look Claire looked like she was about 18 years old. So I left it at that. I wasn't about to give the wrong impression on a young woman. The next week I went to church with my parents again but this time the pastor there wanted me to do a testimony of what I used to be like & what I am like now. I had no idea that Claire was there listening. After service she & her friend came up to me & started asking me questions. Her friend did almost all the talking and she barely said a word. I thought that she was really shy so I tried to say a few things to her. We didn't say much to each other but she did ask me to send her a copy of my testimony. I wrote down her e-mail address on my Palm Pilot & I said that I would e-mail her. Days went by & then I finally remembered to send the testimony to her. She replied the next day & what she sent me was very encouraging. I replied back & I guess that's when we started to keep in touch. We would always talk about what was going on with her walk with Jesus. It was so uplifting for me to see her become closer to God.
Around May things changed between us. Now we began to converse with each other through MSN Messenger. For those who aren't familiar with this, it is an online real time text-messaging program where a person can type what they want on their computer, hit send & the person on the other computer can instantly read what you just sent. We had great fun conversing about what we thought God was doing in our lives & how we were growing with Him in or lives as well. I always tried to keep things strictly on topic, which obviously cantered around Jesus. Then one day we got off topic when she told me that she was assembling a table with her friend that they bought from Ikea. She sounded like she was doing all the work. I was impressed until she told me that her friend did most of the work. But then I was more impressed with her because she knew how to delegate jobs without her doing any of it. This interested me. I started asking her general questions about herself & how she viewed things. I was getting more impressed with her. She started opening up to me about herself & I started to become partially interested in her.
During all this time I prayed for God's guidance in what to do. I asked Him to keep watch over what we would talk about & that we would glorify Him in all that we do.
Fast forward to July. Now I was definitely very interested in her although I dared not to let her know that I had strong feelings for her. I knew that she liked me but I kept my distance. I stayed away because of a list I made in January 2002. In this list I described to God what I was looking for in a woman. This list was about eight pages long on a Palm Pilot. It described her personality & characteristics & more. At the end of my list I put," & more...I don't want to limit God on how He wants to bless me." Everything on this list came true either by me noticing it in her or by her literally telling me what I had on the list.
Funny thing is that I never once looked at the list I made while I was courting her. Many of my friends knew that I was conversing with her & they all wanted me to tell her that I had very strong feelings for her. But, I knew that I had to stick it out no matter how much I wanted to tell her. The only thing that didn't come to pass on this list was "She will tell me" I wrote this down on the Palm. Then on Thursday morning at about 3am we were talking on the phone & I sensed that she wanted to say something. So I asked her if she had anything that she wanted to say to me & she did. She told me a story about a friend of hers. This person was her spiritual friend & adviser that she respected very much. She went on but I didn't hear what she said for I was praying to God & asking Him to make her say it. To say that she is the one for me. Then...She said it. A great sigh of relief could be heard in heaven for I am sure that the angels were all busting at the seams to hear if she would actually say it and she did! I was just beaming! I was so happy I heard those words come out of her mouth. God has answered my prayers! I was so full of happiness & joy & peace. Peace... I never felt such peace before about a girl in my entire life. I knew that she would make me happy, I knew that she would be there for me, I knew that she was the one God has given me to share my life with. I knew that I could love her.
Some say we are crazy. To the world we are. To God we aren't. He does not want us to conform to the patterns of this world. We are His children. He wants the best for His own. Dreams...or rather...prayers do come true. Believe and it will happen through the power of Jesus.
Claire & I have dedicated our lives to serving His will. We know that we have been chosen to do something great for the Kingdom of Heaven. Wouldn't you like to be chosen? You can you know...Just believe.
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