wow. 8 years? Your faith is astounding. I feel like God has been telling me to wait on this thing and move on in a similar way - for a person I really care about - and it’s hard for me to even imagine a year. How did you stay strong all that time? Could you tell us any more? Was it hard caring about someone for so long and not being able to be with them?
Aw thank you! Although it wasn’t 8 years of true faith. It was 8 years of ups and downs and swerving away from the Lord to then come back to Him…and get distant again.
For a bit of context, we met when I was 10 at summer camp. Started really liking him when I was 14 and that was when I first started praying for him to become my husband in the future (lol, toooo keeeen). I know 14 is veeeery young but my feelings for him were real even at such a young age. We’d see each other every summer and have a bit of a summer romance going on but it always left me heartbroken at the end of the summer when we’d have to part and I obviously didn’t mean as much to him as he did to me. I dated a couple other guys over the years but he was always the one who had my heart and my other dating experiences never really took off (probably because I could never be fully invested as he was aaalways on my mind). Then a couple years ago, we started properly talking and we dated for a few months. But then he called it off for various (good) reasons and it broke my heart. It took me 2 years to get to the place where I could surrender it all to the Lord and trust that He would take care of it all. I cried and prayed for God to take my feelings away if he wasn’t going to be the guy for me. It got easier over the months but I still thought of him every single day. (We stayed good friends throughout).
Then a few months ago, we saw each other and clicked again. We started talking again and then he told me he had been thinking and praying about us for a long time and he thought although the time was never right in the past, it felt right now. He asked me to also think and pray about it, especially as he had hurt me in the past. And I did and I guess that’s that!!
I know all of this makes it sound like he’s the bad guy but honestly he’s a sweetheart and he’s always tried to do the right thing, always putting the Lord first.
It definitely wasn’t easy and there were many seasons of sadness, doubting God’s goodness and his love for me. But looking back I needed to go through the difficult times. I needed honest conversations with my Saviour and changes in my life.
It made me realise that it’s only when I got to that place of surrender that the Lord unravelled His plan. The past 8 years have taught me a lot about patience, about forgiveness, about trust. It’s when you’re content having only Him that He reveals the bigger picture.
Keep looking up friends, He will prove himself to be faithful.
Much love xxx
Update: WE GOT MARRIED!




















