Niomi's Love Story September 2nd, 2010

one sunday my family decided to attend a different church, just to check it out. as the pastor was preaching, i was totally distracted, talking to God. i was like “God, i could throw my whole self into service to you and be happy, but you know the cry of my heart is to be a wife and a mother.” after the service ended, the older man sitting next to me turned to me and said, ” i don’t know what this means but God told me to tell you He is going to give you the cry of your heart”. i thought a lot about that word, and how kind God was to let me know he heard me,and honored my desire. my family stopped going to church, and so i didn’t go back to that church for at least a year and a half. when i did go back, as before there were no guys my age. only married men and boys. i was really wanting to meet “the one”, so prayed about going to a church with guys my age, but God said “no, stay here”, so i did. 6 months later, one sunday there was a big group of young adults at church, which was exciting.out of all of them i immediately noticed a tall blond guy with a gotee wearing athletic clothes. i thought he looked like he’d be perfect for my sister! but when thoughts of him persisted, i prayed”God, if he’s meant to notice me, make him notice me”. next week i met him on the bus headed to the same church conference! i started a conversation and we hit it off right away. the chemistry was really strong. he ended up being in denial about his feelings about me for 6 months though, and consistently told me he wasn’t interested even though we started becoming really close as friends(only on facebook, we almost never talked at church).then one night he was praying and realized we could become more than friends easily and put it in God’s hands, thinking that meant God would keep him from ever falling for me. the next day he woke up, totally in love with me. he didn’t tell me for another week. and in that week he agonized over whether it was God’s will or not, and God said “what do you want?”so he arranged to have flowers delivered to my house, and was afraid maybe i didn’t feel the same anymore. infact on the very day the flowers arrived, i was seriously contemplating letting go of the belief that he was the one. , but the flowers arrived just in the nick of time. God is never early and never late, always just in the nick of time. three months later we were engaged, and 4 months after that we had a beautiful wedding.