Seeing as how I'm not actually planning on publishing this blog until the events God wants Robert and I to be a part of come about, history is a little relative. But as of today 8/5/2012, these events that I am going to write about are our history.
Our story is a really cute story about love, but mostly God's plan and the awesome part we get to play. I've always told people that God "dumbyproofed" our relationship and that He must have big plans for us. That couldn't be more true. God has placed Robert and I together, to be the perfect fit for the plans he has for us, which you already know is going to be great!
So, here's a little bit about how God brought us together...it's kinda mindblowing. :)
You see, I had (have?) this friend named Melissa. She and I were completely inseparable the entire summer after 8th grade (and a little during :)). Now she's inseparable from the story of how Robert and I met. You see, Melissa and I were in love with God. Completely passionate about what He was doing in and for us, and because of that we made a list of the things we wanted to do for God. Honestly, we've pretty much forgotten that list and probably didn't get much accomplished. We did want to start a Bible study during the 8th grade school year, and we succeeded in doing that, but the part that plays a vital role in my story was our decision to become missionaries together.
I've always known I was going to be a missionary of some sort, but I'll get into that in a different post. While Melissa and I haven't become missionaries together (God had a different missions partner in mind), we did go on a missions trip. I still remember the day that Melissa asked me to go on the missions trip with her. She and her family were involved in a traveling puppet show group and they were taking a trip to Mexico. I told her I would talk it over with my parents, not exactly convinced that I wanted to go.
My dad was the one that convinced me to say yes. He said if I wanted to be a missionary, I needed to get my feet wet and that this was the perfect opportunity. My pastor of the time helped me send out mission letters and soon support came in....well not exactly. It was actually the day before the money was due that I got enough money. The money was due on a Monday and the Saturday before I had earned $20. I needed $740. That Sunday at church, God showed that He had complete power over my finances and that this was exactly what He wanted me to do. How is it that I knew this? He gave me exactly twice the amount of money that I needed to go, and with the money He told me He had a plan for this trip.
Never was I expecting what happened.
You see, when I went to the puppet meetings with Melissa, I just happened to meet this red-headed boy named Robert. And during the meetings we bonded over being a mutual friend of Melissa's....and being one of the three teenagers that were on the trip, and a butterfly made out of frosting (but that's irrelevant to the story). What is relevant however, is that Robert felt like he knew me or had met me before, but we'll get to the explanation of that later.
Little did I know, that red-head was going to become my husband 4 years later. God knew though, and I was soon to find out. Our missions trip was going to be in February, over the week of Valentine's day. And it was during that week that God told me I was going to marry Robert. Don't worry, it wasn't on Valentine's day -God's not that cheesy :), it was the day after. February 15th, 2007.
You see, I was doing my alone time before breakfast that day. Our missions group had this thing about praying together before each meal (which was one of my favorite times of the day) and Robert was sent to come get me. I was in the middle of reading a passage, so when he told me it was time to circle up, I told him I'd be right there and I was going to finish my paragraph in Philippians. As he was walking away that's when God told me I was going to marry him. An exciting time for a 14 year old female.
( I feel like I should take a break and let you know why prayer time was one of my favorite, it's actually kind of cute and has nothing to do with God. You see when we did prayer time, the entire group circled up and held hands...and Robert and I always ended up next to each other. :) See it's cute!)
Anyways. The week went by and obviously I didn't tell Robert that week. The week passed and I kept my focus on God...until Friday. The end of our missions trip as we were heading back to Texas. Melissa and Robert had been hanging out, and it was a very happy time when she came up to me and told me she had a secret. It turns out that this secret was that Robert liked me ( a very good thing, seeing as how I was to marry him) :).
We went to the Golden Corral that evening with the group, and it was after we got back that we took a walk in the garden at the way of the cross ministries in Harlingen, Texas. A very beautiful garden that witnessed the scene of two awkward teenagers telling each other that they liked each other and exchanging numbers.
The day after we got back from the missions trip I called him up, and that was the beginning of our friendship/relationships. We talked to each other often, so often my parents bought a free long distance ( he lived in Rochester, MI and I in Marlette, MI) plan on our phone (much to my delight). It was during one of these phone conversations that Robert realized where he had seen me.
You see, his mom had forced him to clean his room. And in this case, it proved to be a blessing because he had found a journal entry he had made almost two years ago at that point. This journal entry described a dream in which God had told Robert that he was going to marry me. This dream was given to Robert BEFORE we went on the missions trip together. BEFORE he met me. Before we even knew each other God had told Robert of His plans for us to get married and have children, and that missions trip was more than just getting my feet wet. It was the meeting of my husband.
Some people say that we've moved fast in getting married. We got married on our 4 year anniversary (may 28th, 2011), the year after our freshman year of college, while I was at the age of 18 and he six days over 20. I was a little hesitant over getting married so young as well. It's not really something I would promote, but we were following God's direction, and that's what's important. And recently, with everything God has been sharing with us about our future, we've come to realize, that as with everything, God's timing is perfect. If we had done our relationship in our timing, we would be thinking of wedding plans right now, instead of having the focus on God to allow Him to prepare us for the big plans of the future. :)
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