No, you say? Well here is how:
I had been praying for a wonderful husband for the longest time and thought I had found one in this guy named Donny. We started dating in Feb 2003 when I was working at my dad's office and everything was going so great that I thought I was supposed to marry him. I totally thought that God has sent him just for me.
BOY was I wrong. He totally deceived me and we broke up in Nov of 2004 -
I was soo mad at God. I thought God had sent Donny to me and that he was suppose to be my Husband. How could my loving Father have set me up for that?? I prayed for knowledge and yelled at God to tell me why this has happened to me. I had dated before, but had never been deceived or hurt like this! This kind of pain, I would not wish on my ugliest enemy. When I would pray, I would feel the love and understanding of the Lord. After praying and praying for forgiveness, for not realizing that Donny was not who God wanted me to be with, I finally realized that I was wrong. It wasn't Donny and God had NOT sent him to me.
Once I realized this I prayed that the next man I met, would be my husband. The one that God wanted me to be with. If he was not who God wanted me to be with, then to please make it ultimately clear. Let me tell you, that he really did make it clear. About a month after Donny and I broke up, I met up with an old boyfriend that I had just right after high school. Again, my heart deceived me for when I told this guy that I was now a Christian and that the Lord was really important to me - he said "well I can deal with that, I have to deal with that for my sister." I knew that he had not changed and that it would not work. See.. ultimately clear!
I continued to pray and just kept waiting. One night I was at school (cosmetology) and I was using the computer to look up some hairstyles as well as checking my email and boop! a pop up for a Christian Singles Site comes up. I was like... hello dating site... why are you bothering me??? but just thought what the heck, for whatever reason (GOD) this came to me. So I filled it out and was only 3/4 of the way through my profile, when the teacher called me to do a men's haircut. I closed everything down and forgot about it. About a week later, I remembered that I had done the profile because I got an email saying that someone had tried to contact me. That's right, you guessed it - it was Hubby!!! We emailed each other for about 2 weeks, then traded phone numbers and talked for another week. Right around my birthday, he told me he wanted to take me to dinner - In the back of my mind, I was thinking.. Holy Moly, what is he going to think when we meet IN PERSON... So I told him I would call him back.. I prayed, again, that if this was not to be my husband, that the Lord would make it Ultimately Clear.
So I called him back and told him that was fine, but he would have to meet me there. So I picked a restaurant in a well known area, where the owners know my family - you know.. just in cases!
Anyway.. so we meet up and I instantly know that he is genuine, Christian raised, full of love, honest, caring, handsome, and God filled! I don't want to say I knew... but I knew!! He tells me that he 'knew' too, because I had the cutest cheesiest smile when he walked up and he said that even though he didn't know what I looked like (ove the phone) he could tell I had a beautiful smile.
So there you have it! Three months after our first date, the Hubby gave me a promise ring. Then at around 5 months he asked my parents (stepdad included) for my hand and a few weeks after we got engaged!
God is all good and we should always wait on Him to move - believe me, he will make it clear.
January to be exact. I met Tomas. He was such a sweetheart and such a God filled man, that I knew... just knew that God had sent him for me and me for him!!!
in the hall between the living and dining, we have this vinyl F (for last name) between our wedding signature mats.
So because of my love of vinyl wall art, I decided that I would design one she could use in the baby's bedroom. Unfortunately, I will not post a pic of it as I will be mailing to her on Friday. Once she has it up I will get her to send me a pic and you will be able to see it.
I'snt this super cute??? I'm sure you have probably already guessed what I will be making... but you will see soon enough. I hope my sewing machine does it's job (actually if it doesn't it could be due to user error! lol)