"You're Getting Married???"

Yep!  I'm getting married, and here's our story (from my point of view).

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I met Ben in February 2009, we started doing church with his family that October, and we’ve been

around each other since. Early this year, the Lord put on my heart that I was to marry Ben. This came as

a total shock since I didn’t know him all that well. At first I didn’t believe it... but it was inevitable that

God had chosen him for me. I began watching him and studying him, just trying to learn more about

who he is. I wanted to be so prepared to be his wife whenever God laid it on his heart as well.

His parents came to my parents in April with the same thought (that God intended us to be married). My

parents had already seen it coming as well. Both Ben and I are very quiet and reserved, so it made it hard

to get to know each other, but the Lord provided plenty of opportunity through our families getting

together and church. Not knowing how he felt, I continued to pray for him and about him.

Three weeks before he proposed he went to his Dad and said he felt sure he knew who the Lord

planned for him to marry... and it was me!  He had known since early in the year, but was waiting and
praying to make sure he was hearing the Lord.

Ben and his Dad sat down to talk with my Dad - even discussing the ring and proposal! Ben and our

parents decided to keep this a secret from me so that I would be surprised... and boy, was I surprised! It

took me a good 24 hours to realize I was not dreaming! The Lord has been so, so good to our families

and we are very grateful!

So it turns out that this whole time, we were both praying for each other and thinking of each other, we

just didn’t realize the other felt the same way! It amazes me every time I look back on these months the

way God worked in our lives. He has been so faithful!

Sarah said in a comment, "I don't know how you kept it a secret!"

and I just had to laugh, because I didn't have to keep it a secret!  I didn't even know myself! :)

That’s my story, and I’m stickin’ to it! ;)

{proposal video}

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"But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you."

{Matthew 6:33}

{as cliché as this sounds, he is the love of my life, and I could not be more grateful to God for him}