after the end of the service to continue the fine art of making googly eyes at each other.
After this, we ended up talking quite a bit in the months that followed, and forged a hormonally- charged friendship. There was no fighting it. I knew I was falling for Sarah.
There came a day in May of 2010 when Sarah was in Guatemala on a short-term missions trip. Having such strong feelings for her, even this 10-day period seemed to stretch into the horizons of eternity, and I couldn't wait for her to be back home. On what would have normally been an average Wednesday, I was spending time with the Lord in my bedroom. While praying, I suddenly felt the presence of the Lord upon me in an unusual and increased way. He began speaking to me with a clarity that I had rarely experienced before. It was as clear as if He was sitting in the chair next to me, having a face-to-face conversation with me. We carried a conversation about several very important things, but at the end He asked, "What do you think of Sarah?" I blushingly responded that He surely knew how I felt about her. He then asked me a scandalous question. He asked if I would be interested in marrying her. After a moment of shock, I told the Lord that I wasn't quite sure if I was ready to make a decision of that importance just yet. After reassuring me that He was in this situation and that the choice was completely up to me, I told God that if He thought we were a good match, then yes, I would be willing to marry this beautiful and Godly woman. Little did I know that the Lord had spoken to Sarah on a separate occasion and had also given her an invitation towards marriage to me, two weeks earlier than this experience I had.
Long story short, through a series of profound and unusual happenings, the Lord brought the two of us together as man and wife on June 9, 2012. It was an exhilarating and crazy experience, yet in hindsight, I could see that the Lord had been preparing both of us for marriage even in the years before we met.
You would think that with all of the signs and direct, obvious involvement God had in bringing us together, that our wedding and honeymoon would be nothing short of glorious. Ha ha ha! Wrong.
Don’t get me wrong, the wedding was fun and it was very special to us. Besides being rather surreal, it was a sacred day, where we made a covenant with one another that could be broken only by death.
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The Greatest Mystery
By Josh Taylor